Congratulations to Bernardo, Fanny, Michi and Alex on their new paper now published in Nature Genetics! DeepSTARR is a deep-learning model that is able to quantitatively predict the activities of enhancers directly from DNA sequence. Their model learned cis-regulatory rules that further allowed them to design synthetic de novo enhancers with desired activities.
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de Almeida B. P., Reiter F., Pagani M., Stark A. DeepSTARR predicts enhancer activity from DNA sequence and enables the de novo design of synthetic enhancers. Nature Genetics, May 2022
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