PanACRpred: Predicting Accessible Chromatin Regions in Pangenomes Using Motif Chaining
摘要
In this work, we investigate whether motif subsequence features can predict accessible chromatin regions (ACR) in a genome, i.e. regions that are accessible to regulatory proteins, thus enabling transcription of associated genes. We focus on plants, whose agricultural and ecological importance make them interesting and important organisms to study, and whose complex genomes provide important stress tests for our algorithm. We show that regulatory motif sequence similarity can be found efficiently using co-linear chaining. The similarity scores found are then used as features in machine learning models to explore the feasibility of effectively predicting ACRs in genome assemblies.