DeepC: predicting 3D genome folding using megabase-scale transfer learning.

Schwessinger, Ron; Gosden, Matthew; Downes, Damien; Brown, Richard C; Oudelaar, A Marieke; Telenius, Jelena; Teh, Yee Whye; Lunter, Gerton et al. · Nat Methods · 2020

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Predicting the impact of noncoding genetic variation requires interpreting it in the context of three-dimensional genome architecture. We have developed deepC, a transfer-learning-based deep neural network that accurately predicts genome folding from megabase-scale DNA sequence. DeepC predicts domain boundaries at high resolution, learns the sequence determinants of genome folding and predicts the impact of both large-scale structural and single base-pair variations.

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