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ReviewComputational and structural biotechnology journal2020

Exploring 3D chromatin contacts in gene regulation: The evolution of approaches for the identification of functional enhancer-promoter interaction.

Hang Xu, Shijie Zhang, Xianfu Yi, Dariusz Plewczynski, Mulin Jun Li

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Review in Computational and structural biotechnology journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. RAEPI: Predicting Enhancer-Promoter Interactions Based on Restricted Attention Mechanism.Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences · 2025
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  6. Machine and Deep Learning Methods for Predicting 3D Genome Organization.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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  20. The Impact of Space and Time on the Functional Output of the Genome.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Hang Xu2011 Collaborative Innovation Center of Tianjin for Medical Epigenetics, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Medical Epigenetics, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Shijie Zhang2011 Collaborative Innovation Center of Tianjin for Medical Epigenetics, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Medical Epigenetics, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Xianfu YiSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Dariusz PlewczynskiCentre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Banacha 2c, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland.
Mulin Jun Li2011 Collaborative Innovation Center of Tianjin for Medical Epigenetics, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Medical Epigenetics, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mechanisms underlying gene regulation are key to understand how multicellular organisms with various cell types develop from the same genetic blueprint. Dynamic interactions between enhancers and genes are revealed to play central roles in controlling gene transcription, but the determinants to link functional enhancer-promoter pairs remain elusive. A major challenge is the lack of reliable approach to detect and verify functional enhancer-promoter interactions (EPIs). In this review, we summarized the current methods for detecting EPIs and described how developing techniques facilitate the identification of EPI through assessing the merits and drawbacks of these methods. We also reviewed recent state-of-art EPI prediction methods in terms of their rationale, data usage and characterization. Furthermore, we briefly discussed the evolved strategies for validating functional EPIs.

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Chromatin Conformation CaptureChromatin loopcis-Regulatory elementComputational methodEnhancer-promoter interactionMachine learning

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PMID32226593
PMCPMC7090358

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