Congratulations to Bernardo and all co-authors on their newest paper published in Nature! They used Deep Learning approaches to design synthethic, tissue-specific enhancers in Drosophila!
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Bernardo P. de Almeida, Christoph Schaub, Michaela Pagani, Stefano Secchia, Eileen E. M. Furlong & Alexander Stark. Targeted design of synthetic enhancers for selected tissues in the Drosophila embryo. Nature, December 2023.
This study was published alongside with related work by scientists from VIB-KU Leuven on ‘Cell type directed design of synthetic enhancers’.
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