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ReviewJournal of cell science2026

Transcription clusters and developmental pathways - nature, nurture, noise.

Peter R Cook

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Review in Journal of cell science, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Peter R CookThe Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RE, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6639-188X

Funding

University of Oxford
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Establishing how the genomic DNA sequence determines cell fate is a grand challenge in biology. It is usually approached from the viewpoint that each gene is transcribed independently of others. However, there is increasing evidence that clusters of RNA polymerases (variously referred to as transcription factories, condensates and hubs) make most RNA. Here, I use this cluster-based view to present alternative approaches to the grand challenge of linking DNA sequence and cell fate. Artificial intelligence-based tools are driving stunning advances in predicting transcriptional outputs, which in turn direct cell fates; however, they are limited by the curses of dimensionality, data sparsity and understandability. I explore how these AI tools could be used to exploit under-appreciated but information-rich inputs provided by DNA:DNA contacts in clusters.

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Multigene FamilyTranscription, GeneticAnimalsArtificial IntelligenceDNAHumansDNACell fateDevelopmental pathwaysTranscriptional noiseWaddington landscape

Identifiers

PMID42312575
PMCPMC13327538

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