2024
Using a comprehensive atlas and predictive models to reveal the complexity and evolution of brain-active regulatory elements
Pratt H, Andrews G, Shedd N, Phalke N, Li T, Pampari A, Jensen M, Wen C, Consortium P, Gandal M, Geschwind D, Gerstein M, Moore J, Kundaje A, Colubri A, Weng Z. Using a comprehensive atlas and predictive models to reveal the complexity and evolution of brain-active regulatory elements. Science Advances 2024, 10: eadj4452. PMID: 38781344, PMCID: PMC11114231, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adj4452.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEpigenetic dataCell-type-specific gene regulationCis-regulatory elementsComprehensive atlasGenetic variants associated with psychiatric disordersLineage-specific transcription factorsBrain cell typesMammalian elementsPsychENCODE ConsortiumNoncoding regionsEvolutionary historyGene regulationRegulatory elementsSequence mutationsTranscription factorsSequence syntaxRegulatory informationPrimate-specific sequencesBinding sitesHuman traitsCell typesFunctional implicationsPsychiatric disordersSequenceFetal brain development
2022
Building integrative functional maps of gene regulation
Xu J, Pratt HE, Moore JE, Gerstein MB, Weng Z. Building integrative functional maps of gene regulation. Human Molecular Genetics 2022, 31: r114-r122. PMID: 36083269, PMCID: PMC9585680, DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddac195.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsConceptsGene regulationRegulatory mapSame genetic informationNon-coding genesSuch regulatory elementsEvolutionary analysisHuman genomeRegulatory elementsGenetic informationGene expressionType diversityRegulatory roleGenomeBase pairsIndividual cellsFunctional assaysSpecific functionsRegulationCellsFunctional mapsGenesDNADiversityCopiesSequence
2021
Genome-wide detection and analysis of CRISPR-Cas off-targets
Rodríguez T, Dadafarin S, Pratt H, Liu P, Amrani N, Zhu L. Genome-wide detection and analysis of CRISPR-Cas off-targets. Progress In Nucleic Acid Research And Molecular Biology 2021, 181: 31-43. PMID: 34127199, DOI: 10.1016/bs.pmbts.2021.01.012.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsProtospacer-adjacent motifOff-target identificationGUIDE-seqGenome-wide detectionHigh-throughput sequencingShort Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) technologyOff-target sitesSequencing platformsThroughput sequencingTreat human diseasesOpen-source pipelineDocker imageHuman diseasesGene editingOff-targetsBiological studiesIncreased multiplexingProfiling approachSequenceIn vivoBioconductorSgRNAMotifRNAIdentification
2020
LogoJS: a Javascript package for creating sequence logos and embedding them in web applications
Pratt H, Weng Z. LogoJS: a Javascript package for creating sequence logos and embedding them in web applications. Bioinformatics 2020, 36: 3573-3575. PMID: 32181813, PMCID: PMC7267833, DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa192.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsWeb applicationJavaScript packagesSequence logosUser interface frameworkWeb-based visualization toolHuman-readable formatModern web technologiesUser interfaceWeb technologiesNeural networkOperating systemOpen-sourceVisualization toolsJavaScriptWeighted outputCompanion web applicationComputational techniquesWebConsensus sequenceGenomic dataSupplementary dataInteractive figuresMultiple lettersSequenceReactJS