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ArticleNucleic acids research2025

Probabilistic and machine-learning methods for predicting local rates of transcription elongation from nascent RNA sequencing data.

Lingjie Liu, Yixin Zhao, Rebecca Hassett, Shushan Toneyan, Peter K Koo, Adam Siepel

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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6 authors.

Lingjie LiuSimons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5765-1213
Yixin ZhaoSimons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7856-2818
Rebecca HassettSimons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, United States.
Shushan ToneyanSimons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, United States.
Peter K KooSimons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-8722-0038
Adam SiepelSimons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3557-7219

Funding

Evolutionary Human Genomics: Demography, Natural Selection, and Transcriptional RegulationR35GM127070 · NIGMS · COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY · PI Adam Charles Siepel · 2018 to 2026
$4.7M
Evolution of Chromatin Architecture and Transcriptional Regulation in MammalsR01HG010346 · NHGRI · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI DANKO, CHARLES GRAHE, SIEPEL, ADAM CHARLES · 2019 to 2022
$2.7M
A unified probabilistic model and software implementation for analysis of nascent RNA sequencing dataR01HG012944 · NHGRI · COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY · PI Adam Charles Siepel · 2024 to 2026
$1.7M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG010346NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG012944NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM127070Simons Center for Quantitative Biology at Cold Spring Harbor LaboratoryUS National Institutes of Health R35-GM127070
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rates of transcription elongation vary within and across eukaryotic gene bodies. Here, we introduce new methods for predicting elongation rates from nascent RNA sequencing data. First, we devise a probabilistic model that predicts nucleotide-specific elongation rates as a generalized linear function of nearby genomic and epigenomic features. We validate this model with simulations and apply it to public PRO-seq (Precision Run-On Sequencing) and epigenomic data for four cell types, finding that reductions in local elongation rate are associated with cytosine nucleotides, DNA methylation, splice sites, RNA stem-loops, CTCF (CCCTC-binding factor) binding sites, and several histone marks, including H3K36me3 and H4K20me1. By contrast, increases in local elongation rate are associated with thymines, A+T-rich and low-complexity sequences, and H3K79me2 marks. We then introduce a convolutional neural network that improves our local rate predictions. Our analysis is the first to permit genome-wide predictions of relative nucleotide-specific elongation rates.

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Machine LearningSequence Analysis, RNATranscription Elongation, GeneticBinding SitesCCCTC-Binding FactorDNA MethylationEpigenomicsHistone CodeHistonesHumansModels, StatisticalNeural Networks, ComputerRNA Splice SitesCCCTC-Binding FactorHistonesRNA Splice Sites

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PMID39964478
PMCPMC11833694

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