DNAffinity: a machine-learning approach to predict DNA binding affinities of transcription factors

S Barissi, A Sala, M Wieczór, F Battistini… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present a physics-based machine learning approach to predict in vitro transcription
factor binding affinities from structural and mechanical DNA properties directly derived from …

Expanding the repertoire of DNA shape features for genome-scale studies of transcription factor binding

J Li, JM Sagendorf, TP Chiu, M Pasi… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Uncovering the mechanisms that affect the binding specificity of transcription factors (TFs) is
critical for understanding the principles of gene regulation. Although sequence-based …

TFBSshape: an expanded motif database for DNA shape features of transcription factor binding sites

TP Chiu, B Xin, N Markarian, Y Wang… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract TFBSshape (https://tfbsshape. usc. edu) is a motif database for analyzing structural
profiles of transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs). The main rationale for this database is …

A unified approach for quantifying and interpreting DNA shape readout by transcription factors

HT Rube, C Rastogi, JF Kribelbauer… - Molecular systems …, 2018 - embopress.org
Transcription factors (TF s) interpret DNA sequence by probing the chemical and structural
properties of the nucleotide polymer. DNA shape is thought to enable a parsimonious …

You can't always sketch what you want: Understanding Sensemaking in Visual Query Systems

DJL Lee, J Lee, T Siddiqui, J Kim… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual query systems (VQSs) empower users to interactively search for line charts with
desired visual patterns, typically specified using intuitive sketch-based interfaces. Despite …

A comprehensive review of computational prediction of genome-wide features

T Xu, X Zheng, B Li, P Jin, Z Qin… - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
There are significant correlations among different types of genetic, genomic and epigenomic
features within the genome. These correlations make the in silico feature prediction possible …

Predicting double-strand DNA breaks using epigenome marks or DNA at kilobase resolution

R Mourad, K Ginalski, G Legube, O Cuvier - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
Double-strand breaks (DSBs) result from the attack of both DNA strands by multiple sources,
including radiation and chemicals. DSBs can cause the abnormal chromosomal …

ThreaDNA: predicting DNA mechanics' contribution to sequence selectivity of proteins along whole genomes

J Cevost, C Vaillant, S Meyer - Bioinformatics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Many DNA-binding proteins recognize their target sequences indirectly, by
sensing DNA's response to mechanical distortion. ThreaDNA estimates this response based …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative measurement and thermodynamic modeling of fused enhancers support a two-tiered mechanism for interpreting regulatory DNA

MAH Samee, T Lydiard-Martin, KM Biette, BJ Vincent… - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Computational models of enhancer function generally assume that transcription factors (TFs)
exert their regulatory effects independently, modeling an enhancer as a" bag of sites." These …

Bayesian Markov models improve the prediction of binding motifs beyond first order

W Ge, M Meier, C Roth, J Söding - NAR Genomics and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene expression by binding to specific DNA motifs.
Accurate models for predicting binding affinities are crucial for quantitatively understanding …