Cicero predicts cis-regulatory DNA interactions from single-cell chromatin accessibility data

HA Pliner, JS Packer, JL McFaline-Figueroa… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
Linking regulatory DNA elements to their target genes, which may be located hundreds of
kilobases away, remains challenging. Here, we introduce Cicero, an algorithm that identifies …

Progress and challenges in bioinformatics approaches for enhancer identification

D Kleftogiannis, P Kalnis, VB Bajic - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Enhancers are cis-acting DNA elements that play critical roles in distal regulation of gene
expression. Identifying enhancers is an important step for understanding distinct gene …

Recent advances in genetic engineering tools based on synthetic biology

J Ren, J Lee, D Na - Journal of Microbiology, 2020 - Springer
Genome-scale engineering is a crucial methodology to rationally regulate microbiological
system operations, leading to expected biological behaviors or enhanced bioproduct yields …

Combining transcription factor binding affinities with open-chromatin data for accurate gene expression prediction

F Schmidt, N Gasparoni, G Gasparoni… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The binding and contribution of transcription factors (TF) to cell specific gene expression is
often deduced from open-chromatin measurements to avoid costly TF ChIP-seq assays …

Dynamic organization of lncRNA and circular RNA regulators collectively controlled cardiac differentiation in humans

Y Li, J Zhang, C Huo, N Ding, J Li, J Xiao, X Lin… - …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Advances in developmental cardiology have increased our understanding of the early
aspects of heart differentiation. However, understanding noncoding RNA (ncRNA) …

Integrative prediction of gene expression with chromatin accessibility and conformation data

F Schmidt, F Kern, MH Schulz - Epigenetics & chromatin, 2020 - Springer
Background Enhancers play a fundamental role in orchestrating cell state and development.
Although several methods have been developed to identify enhancers, linking them to their …

[HTML][HTML] The spatial binding model of the pioneer factor Oct4 with its target genes during cell reprogramming

H Li, N Ta, C Long, Q Zhang, S Li, L Yang… - Computational and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Understanding the target regulation between pioneer factor and its binding genes is crucial
for improving the efficiency of TF-mediated reprogramming. Oct4 as the only one factor that …

Automated identification of core regulatory genes in human gene regulatory networks

V Narang, MA Ramli, A Singhal, P Kumar… - PLoS computational …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Human gene regulatory networks (GRN) can be difficult to interpret due to a tangle of edges
interconnecting thousands of genes. We constructed a general human GRN from extensive …

Predicting expression: the complementary power of histone modification and transcription factor binding data

DM Budden, DG Hurley, J Cursons, JF Markham… - Epigenetics & …, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Background Transcription factors (TFs) and histone modifications (HMs) play critical
roles in gene expression by regulating mRNA transcription. Modelling frameworks have …

Virtual reference environments: a simple way to make research reproducible

DG Hurley, DM Budden… - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract 'Reproducible research'has received increasing attention over the past few years as
bioinformatics and computational biology methodologies become more complex. Although …