Deep learning on chromatin profiles reveals the <i>cis</i>-regulatory sequence code of the rice genome

Xinkai Zhou; Zhonghao Ruan; Chenlu Zhang; Kerstin Kaufmann; Dijun Chen

doi:10.1016/j.jgg.2024.12.007

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Deep learning on chromatin profiles reveals the cis-regulatory sequence code of the rice genome

doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2024.12.007

1. State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China;
2. Department for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology, Institute for Biology, Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin, Berlin 10115, Germany;
3. State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China;
4. Department for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology, Institute for Biology, Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin, Berlin 10115, Germany;
5. State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32070656). The authors acknowledge the Center for Information Technology and the High-Performance Computing Center of Nanjing University for providing high performance computing (HPC) resources.

Received Date: 2024-09-26
Accepted Date: 2024-12-11
Rev Recd Date: 2024-12-11

Available Online: 2025-07-11

Publish Date: 2024-12-18

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