CREaTor: zero-shot cis-regulatory pattern modeling with attention mechanisms

Autor: Yongge Li, Fusong Ju, Zhiyuan Chen, Yiming Qu, Huanhuan Xia, Liang He, Lijun Wu, Jianwei Zhu, Bin Shao, Pan Deng
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Genome Biology, Vol 24, Iss 1, Pp 1-22 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1474-760X
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-023-03103-8
Popis: Abstract Linking cis-regulatory sequences to target genes has been a long-standing challenge. In this study, we introduce CREaTor, an attention-based deep neural network designed to model cis-regulatory patterns for genomic elements up to 2 Mb from target genes. Coupled with a training strategy that predicts gene expression from flanking candidate cis-regulatory elements (cCREs), CREaTor can model cell type-specific cis-regulatory patterns in new cell types without prior knowledge of cCRE-gene interactions or additional training. The zero-shot modeling capability, combined with the use of only RNA-seq and ChIP-seq data, allows for the ready generalization of CREaTor to a broad range of cell types.
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