Evidence map›Paper›PMID 39362779›Full record

ReviewGenes & development2024

Decoding biology with massively parallel reporter assays and machine learning.

Alyssa La Fleur, Yongsheng Shi, Georg Seelig

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Review in Genes & development, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. PoolParty: streamlined design of DNA sequence libraries in Python.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  9. Decoding thebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  11. ePerturbDB: enhancer's experimental perturbation database.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2026
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  17. Optimization of regulatory DNA with active learning.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Alyssa La FleurPaul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
Yongsheng ShiDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA; gseelig@uw.edu yongshes@uci.edu.
Georg SeeligPaul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA; gseelig@uw.edu yongshes@uci.edu.

Funding

mRNA alternative polyadenylation in B cell developmentR01AI170840 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI Roger Sciammas, Yongsheng Shi · 2022 to 2026
$4.1M
Nuclear functions co-opted by human rhinovirus during replication in the cytoplasm of infected cellsR01AI155962 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI GERSHON, PAUL D, SEMLER, BERT L · 2021 to 2025
$2.3M
Mechanisms and regulation of mRNA 3' processingR35GM149294 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI Yongsheng Shi · 2023 to 2026
$2.1M
Engineering cell type-specific splicing regulationR01GM149631 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Georg Seelig · 2023 to 2026
$1.5M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI155962NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI170840NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM149631NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM149294
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Massively parallel reporter assays (MPRAs) are powerful tools for quantifying the impacts of sequence variation on gene expression. Reading out molecular phenotypes with sequencing enables interrogating the impact of sequence variation beyond genome scale. Machine learning models integrate and codify information learned from MPRAs and enable generalization by predicting sequences outside the training data set. Models can provide a quantitative understanding of

Indexed as

Machine LearningAnimalsGene Expression RegulationGenes, ReporterHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansgene regulationmachine learningmassively parallel reporter assays

Identifiers

PMID39362779
PMCPMC11535156

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