Perspective on recent developments and challenges in regulatory and systems genomics
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| author | Zeiltinger, Julia Roy, Sushmita Ay, Ferhat Mathelier, Anthony Medina-Rivera, Alejandra Mahony, Shaun Sinha, Saurabh Ernst, Jason |
| author_facet | Zeiltinger, Julia Roy, Sushmita Ay, Ferhat Mathelier, Anthony Medina-Rivera, Alejandra Mahony, Shaun Sinha, Saurabh Ernst, Jason |
| contents | Predicting how genetic variation affects phenotypic outcomes at the organismal, cellular, and molecular levels requires deciphering the cis-regulatory code, the sequence rules by which non-coding regions regulate genes. In this perspective, we discuss recent computational progress and challenges towards solving this fundamental problem. We describe how cis-regulatory elements are mapped and how their sequence rules can be learned and interpreted with sequence-to-function neural networks, with the goal of identifying genetic variants in human disease. We also discuss how studies of the 3D chromatin organization could help identifying long-range regulatory effects and how current methods for mapping gene regulatory networks could better describe biological processes. We point out current gaps in knowledge along with technical limitations and benchmarking challenges of computational methods. Finally, we discuss newly emerging technologies, such as spatial transcriptomics, and outline strategies for creating a more general model of the cis-regulatory code that is more broadly applicable across cell types and individuals. |
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| spellingShingle | Perspective on recent developments and challenges in regulatory and systems genomics Zeiltinger, Julia Roy, Sushmita Ay, Ferhat Mathelier, Anthony Medina-Rivera, Alejandra Mahony, Shaun Sinha, Saurabh Ernst, Jason Genomics Predicting how genetic variation affects phenotypic outcomes at the organismal, cellular, and molecular levels requires deciphering the cis-regulatory code, the sequence rules by which non-coding regions regulate genes. In this perspective, we discuss recent computational progress and challenges towards solving this fundamental problem. We describe how cis-regulatory elements are mapped and how their sequence rules can be learned and interpreted with sequence-to-function neural networks, with the goal of identifying genetic variants in human disease. We also discuss how studies of the 3D chromatin organization could help identifying long-range regulatory effects and how current methods for mapping gene regulatory networks could better describe biological processes. We point out current gaps in knowledge along with technical limitations and benchmarking challenges of computational methods. Finally, we discuss newly emerging technologies, such as spatial transcriptomics, and outline strategies for creating a more general model of the cis-regulatory code that is more broadly applicable across cell types and individuals. |
| title | Perspective on recent developments and challenges in regulatory and systems genomics |
| topic | Genomics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04363 |