2021
Annotation of chromatin states in 66 complete mouse epigenomes during development
van der Velde A, Fan K, Tsuji J, Moore J, Purcaro M, Pratt H, Weng Z. Annotation of chromatin states in 66 complete mouse epigenomes during development. Communications Biology 2021, 4: 239. PMID: 33619351, PMCID: PMC7900196, DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-01756-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsChromatin stateMouse epigenomesPolycomb repressive complex proteinsBivalent chromatin stateTranscription start siteRepressive mark H3K27me3Silence target genesCharacteristics of promotersChromHMM algorithmUnique epigenomeGene expression programsENCODE projectTranscribed regionsMulticellular organismsStart siteRepressed regionsActive marksMammalian developmentComplex proteinsEpigenomeTissue specificityTarget genesExpression programsCell typesIntegrated analysis
2020
A curated benchmark of enhancer-gene interactions for evaluating enhancer-target gene prediction methods
Moore J, Pratt H, Purcaro M, Weng Z. A curated benchmark of enhancer-gene interactions for evaluating enhancer-target gene prediction methods. Genome Biology 2020, 21: 17. PMID: 31969180, PMCID: PMC6977301, DOI: 10.1186/s13059-019-1924-8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEnhancer-gene interactionsTarget genesGene prediction methodsGenome-wide collectionCis-regulatory elementsCell typesEpigenomic dataDevelopment of computational methodsPredicted target genesGenomic interactionsPublished computational methodsTargetFinderComputational methodsGenesConclusionsOur resultsCCREsDistance methodCellsResultsToInteractionConclusionsOurTypePEPPrediction method