ATAC-seq

Multi-omics analysis reveals chromatin and transcriptomic remodeling in hippocampal CA1 following adolescent social isolation

Two weeks of post-weaning isolation in male mice altered expression of 106 CA1 genes, enriched for myelination, while chromatin accessibility shifted only at nominal significance and tracked expression weakly.

KAS-CUT&Tag for direct mapping of transcription bubbles

N3-kethoxal labeling of single-stranded DNA within CUT&Tag maps Pol II transcription bubbles; bubble density tracks nascent transcription, shifts with transcription inhibitors and TFIIS loss, and peaks at histone genes.

Hyperosmotic stress induces rewiring of 3D chromatin interactions

One hour of 200 mM sorbitol collapses most chromatin loops in human cells while several hundred transient, cohesin-dependent, CTCF-independent loops form at active promoters, preceding anchor-gene activation.

Integrative Multi-omics Analysis of the Human Skeletal Muscle Response to Endurance or Resistance Exercise: Findings from the Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC)

In 174 sedentary adults, resistance exercise changed more muscle molecular features than endurance exercise across omes and time points; network analysis nominates MEF2A and NFIC as regulatory hubs.

Degraded myelin is associated with cold hypersensitivity in paclitaxel-induced peripheral neuropathy

In paclitaxel-treated mice, cold hypersensitivity outlasts mechanical hypersensitivity and coincides with reduced myelin gene expression, lower chromatin accessibility at Egr2/Yy1 motifs, and fragmented sciatic nerve myelin.

Signaling by a tyrosine-sulfated peptide balances growth and osmotic stress response in rice

Overexpressing rice peptide OsPSY8 lengthens roots but lowers osmotic stress survival, while knockout raises it; OsWRKY24 represses the OsPSY8 promoter and is induced by PEG.

BOTANIC-1: a series of long-context plant genomic foundation models in the agentic era

Bidirectional Mamba2 plant genomic language models (318M to 3.2B parameters) trained on 320 land-plant genomes top a 22-task frozen-model aggregate; a small variant reaches 131,072 bp context.

Epigenetic characterization and manipulation of rare circadian neuron subtypes

El-INTACT nuclear purification gives clean ATAC-seq from ~120 Drosophila clock neurons and 16 PDF neurons, revealing cell-type-specific Clk enhancers; disrupting two renders flies arrhythmic.

Ryder: Epigenome normalization using a two-tier model and internal reference regions

Ryder normalizes epigenomic bigWig tracks against stable internal reference regions such as invariant CTCF sites, correcting background and signal separately, recovering expected perturbation effects that depth-only normalization obscured.

Enhancer buffering protects dosage-sensitive housekeeping genes during vulnerable developmental transitions

TCOF1 dosage is limiting for transitional human neural crest cells; its enhancers buffer promoter output against MYC fluctuations rather than amplifying it, a pattern seen across 14 dosage-sensitive promoters.

A multi-tissue epigenomic atlas links the sheep non-coding genome to domestication and complex traits

SheepEpimap combines 516 histone CUT&Tag, ATAC-seq and RNA-seq datasets from 43 sheep tissues to annotate 2.93 million cis-regulatory elements and 145,407 allele-specific variants for trait interpretation.

Extracellular matrix regulates lineage plasticity in prostate cancer through YAP/TEAD

Loss of extracellular matrix-integrin signaling switches off YAP/TEAD and lets prostate adenocarcinoma organoids turn neuroendocrine; LATS inhibition reverses it, and combined YAP, NOTCH and AR inhibition fully reprograms them.

Promoter-associated RNA polymerase III shapes RNA polymerase II-dependent inflammatory gene expression during viral infection

Pol III occupies TATA-enriched, TBP-dependent inflammatory gene promoters, primes basal expression, then restrains Pol II induction during MHV68, HSV-1 and influenza A infection.

ARSENAL: Learning Transferable Regulatory DNA Representations with Targeted Short-Context Language Models

A 350 bp masked DNA language model trained on ENCODE cCREs with a frequency-domain regularizer recovers TF motifs zero-shot, scores regulatory variants, improves ChromBPNet inputs, and guides sequence design.

Population-scale detection of methylation outliers from long-read genome sequencing

METAFORA calls depth-aware, covariate-adjusted methylation outlier regions from PacBio and Nanopore long reads; in 551 rare-disease genomes, outliers tracked structural variants, repeat expansions, and imprinting defects.

A deep-time landscape of plant cis-regulatory sequence evolution

Conservatory, an orthogroup-centric conserved noncoding sequence finder, catalogs 2.3 million unique CNSs across 314 plant genomes and reveals regulatory elements older than angiosperms and seed plants.

ChromBPNet: bias factorized, base-resolution deep learning models of chromatin accessibility reveal cis-regulatory sequence syntax, transcription factor footprints and regulatory variants

Learning and removing Tn5/DNase-I sequence bias lets a small base-resolution CNN (ChromBPNet) recover TF motifs and footprints from accessibility data and rival Enformer at predicting chromatin QTL effects.

De novo variants in the non-coding spliceosomal snRNA gene RNU4-2 are a frequent cause of syndromic neurodevelopmental disorders

Mostly de novo variants in an 18 bp constrained region of U4 snRNA gene RNU4-2 cause a syndromic neurodevelopmental disorder, estimated to explain 0.41% of cases.

An epigenetic barrier sets the timing of human neuronal maturation

Chromatin regulators including EZH2, EHMT1/2, and DOT1L establish an epigenetic barrier in human neural progenitors that poises maturation genes and sets the protracted pace of cortical neuron maturation.

Hagfish genome illuminates vertebrate whole genome duplications and their evolutionary consequences

Chromosome-scale inshore hagfish genome places 1R before the cyclostome-gnathostome split and 2R in the gnathostome stem, and reveals two cyclostome-specific duplications (CR1, CR2).

The ENCODE Uniform Analysis Pipelines

ENCODE's containerised Workflow Description Language pipelines for ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, DNase-seq, RNA-seq variants, Hi-C and bisulfite sequencing run on cloud or local clusters, with documented compute costs and provenance.

Decoding gene regulation in the mouse embryo using single-cell multi-omics

A mouse embryo multiome atlas (E7.5 to E8.75) and an unsupervised transcription factor binding predictor; a Brachyury knockout supports its network predictions in neuromesodermal progenitors.

Effective gene expression prediction from sequence by integrating long-range interactions

Enformer, a sequence-based transformer integrating elements up to 100 kb away, lifts held-out gene expression prediction (correlation 0.81 to 0.85 versus Basenji2) and variant effect prediction.

ArchR: An integrative and scalable software package for single-cell chromatin accessibility analysis

ArchR, an HDF5-backed R suite for end-to-end scATAC-seq analysis, outpaces SnapATAC and Signac and processes over 1.2 million simulated cells within 8 h on a laptop.

Genome-wide meta-analysis, fine-mapping, and integrative prioritization identify new Alzheimer's disease risk genes

Meta-analysing UK Biobank family-history GWAS with diagnosed-AD GWAS yields 37 loci, four novel (NCK2, TSPAN14, SPRED2, CCDC6); fine-mapping, colocalisation and network scoring prioritize causal genes.

Dynamic Transcriptome, Accessible Genome and PGR Cistrome Profiles in the Human Myometrium

Term-pregnant versus nonpregnant human myometrium shows 2890 differentially expressed genes, more open chromatin regions (85777 vs 45501), and progesterone receptor binding shifted from promoters toward distal sites.

Improved peak-calling with MACS2

Running MACS2 in default single-end mode on paired-end ATAC-seq miscalculates fragment coverage and calls low-coverage peaks; a modified MACS2 adds peak-length and gap parameters and fixes calculation bugs.

A rapid and robust method for single cell chromatin accessibility profiling

Upfront bulk Tn5 tagging then single-nucleus sorting into plates gives scATAC-seq libraries with higher complexity than Fluidigm C1, resolving 12 clusters among 3,385 mouse splenocytes.