Beyond assembly: the increasing flexibility of single-molecule sequencing technology

PW Hook, W Timp - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
The maturation of high-throughput short-read sequencing technology over the past two
decades has shaped the way genomes are studied. Recently, single-molecule, long-read …

[HTML][HTML] The era of 3D and spatial genomics

BAM Bouwman, N Crosetto, M Bienko - Trends in genetics, 2022 - cell.com
Over a decade ago the advent of high-throughput chromosome conformation capture (Hi-C)
sparked a new era of 3D genomics. Since then the number of methods for mapping the 3D …

SPRITE: a genome-wide method for mapping higher-order 3D interactions in the nucleus using combinatorial split-and-pool barcoding

SA Quinodoz, P Bhat, P Chovanec, JW Jachowicz… - Nature protocols, 2022 - nature.com
A fundamental question in gene regulation is how cell-type-specific gene expression is
influenced by the packaging of DNA within the nucleus of each cell. We recently developed …

Modification mapping by nanopore sequencing

LK White, JR Hesselberth - Frontiers in Genetics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Next generation sequencing (NGS) has provided biologists with an unprecedented view into
biological processes and their regulation over the past 2 decades, fueling a wave of …

[HTML][HTML] Interplay between CTCF boundaries and a super enhancer controls cohesin extrusion trajectories and gene expression

ESM Vos, C Valdes-Quezada, Y Huang, A Allahyar… - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
To understand how chromatin domains coordinate gene expression, we dissected select
genetic elements organizing topology and transcription around the Prdm14 super enhancer …

Capture-C: a modular and flexible approach for high-resolution chromosome conformation capture

DJ Downes, AL Smith, MA Karpinska, T Velychko… - Nature protocols, 2022 - nature.com
Chromosome conformation capture (3C) methods measure the spatial proximity between
DNA elements in the cell nucleus. Many methods have been developed to sample 3C …

Extracting multi-way chromatin contacts from Hi-C data

L Liu, B Zhang, C Hyeon - PLOS Computational Biology, 2021 - journals.plos.org
There is a growing realization that multi-way chromatin contacts formed in chromosome
structures are fundamental units of gene regulation. However, due to the paucity and …

Long-read sequencing to understand genome biology and cell function

F Kraft, I Kurth - The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell …, 2020 - Elsevier
Determining the sequence of DNA and RNA molecules has a huge impact on the
understanding of cell biology and function. Recent advancements in next-generation short …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring 3D chromatin contacts in gene regulation: the evolution of approaches for the identification of functional enhancer-promoter interaction

H Xu, S Zhang, X Yi, D Plewczynski, MJ Li - Computational and structural …, 2020 - Elsevier
Mechanisms underlying gene regulation are key to understand how multicellular organisms
with various cell types develop from the same genetic blueprint. Dynamic interactions …

Functional genomic assays to annotate enhancer–promoter interactions genome wide

AKY Leung, L Yao, H Yu - Human Molecular Genetics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Enhancers are pivotal for regulating gene transcription that occurs at promoters.
Identification of the interacting enhancer–promoter pairs and understanding the …