Toward a foundation model of causal cell and tissue biology with a Perturbation Cell and Tissue Atlas

JE Rood, A Hupalowska, A Regev - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Comprehensively charting the biologically causal circuits that govern the phenotypic space
of human cells has often been viewed as an insurmountable challenge. However, in the last …

Pooled Genome-Scale CRISPR Screens in Single Cells

D Schraivogel, LM Steinmetz… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Assigning functions to genes and learning how to control their expression are part of the
foundation of cell biology and therapeutic development. An efficient and unbiased method to …

Scalable genetic screening for regulatory circuits using compressed Perturb-seq

D Yao, L Binan, J Bezney, B Simonton… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Pooled CRISPR screens with single-cell RNA sequencing readout (Perturb-seq) have
emerged as a key technique in functional genomics, but they are limited in scale by cost and …

Structural and functional properties of mSWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes revealed through single-cell perturbation screens

JE Otto, O Ursu, AP Wu, EB Winter, MS Cuoco, S Ma… - Molecular Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Summary The mammalian SWI/SNF (mSWI/SNF or BAF) family of chromatin remodeling
complexes play critical roles in regulating DNA accessibility and gene expression. The three …

Cross-modality matching and prediction of perturbation responses with labeled Gromov-Wasserstein optimal transport

J Ryu, C Bunne, L Pinello, A Regev… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
It is now possible to conduct large scale perturbation screens with complex readout
modalities, such as different molecular profiles or high content cell images. While these …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancer regulatory networks globally connect non-coding breast cancer loci to cancer genes

Y Wang, D Armendariz, L Wang, H Zhao, S Xie… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Genetic studies have associated thousands of enhancers with breast cancer. However, the
vast majority have not been functionally characterized. Thus, it remains unclear how variant …

Sequential Optimal Experimental Design of Perturbation Screens Guided by Multi-modal Priors

K Huang, R Lopez, JC Hütter, T Kudo, A Rios… - … on Research in …, 2024 - Springer
Understanding a cell's expression response to genetic perturbations helps to address
important challenges in biology and medicine. This includes the inference of gene circuits …

Active learning for efficient discovery of optimal gene combinations in the combinatorial perturbation space

J Qin, HH Wessels, C Fernandez-Granda… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The advancement of novel combinatorial CRISPR screening technologies enables the
identification of synergistic gene combinations on a large scale. This is crucial for …

A supervised contrastive framework for learning disentangled representations of cell perturbation data

X Tu, JC Hütter, ZJ Wang, T Kudo, A Regev, R Lopez - BioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
CRISPR technology, combined with single-cell RNA-Seq, has opened the way to large scale
pooled perturbation screens, allowing more systematic interrogations of gene functions in …

Guide assignment in single-cell CRISPR screens using crispat

JM Braunger, B Velten - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Pooled single cell CRISPR screens have emerged as a powerful tool in functional genomics
to probe the effect of genetic interventions at scale. A crucial step in the analysis of the …