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ArticleGenome biology2024

EpiGePT: a pretrained transformer-based language model for context-specific human epigenomics.

Zijing Gao, Qiao Liu, Wanwen Zeng, Rui Jiang, Wing Hung Wong

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Article in Genome biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Zijing Gao *Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics Division at the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
Qiao Liu *Department of Statistics, Stanford University, CA, Stanford, 94305, USA. liuqiao@stanford.edu.
Wanwen ZengDepartment of Statistics, Stanford University, CA, Stanford, 94305, USA.
Rui JiangMinistry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics Division at the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China. ruijiang@tsinghua.edu.cn.
Wing Hung WongDepartment of Statistics, Stanford University, CA, Stanford, 94305, USA. whwong@stanford.edu.

Funding

Special EquipmentP50HG007735 · NHGRI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI CHANG, HOWARD Y · 2014 to 2018
$15.2M
Statistical methods for gene regulatory analysis and single cell genomicsR01HG010359 · NHGRI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI WONG, WING H. · 2019 to 2022
$1.5M
Bridging the gap between genetic variants and radiomic phenotypes via genomic large language modelsK99HG013661 · NHGRI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI LIU, QIAO · 2024 to 2024
$131k
NHGRI NIH HHS K99 HG013661NHGRI NIH HHS P50 HG007735NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG010359
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The inherent similarities between natural language and biological sequences have inspired the use of large language models in genomics, but current models struggle to incorporate chromatin interactions or predict in unseen cellular contexts. To address this, we propose EpiGePT, a transformer-based model designed for predicting context-specific human epigenomic signals. By incorporating transcription factor activities and 3D genome interactions, EpiGePT outperforms existing methods in epigenomic signal prediction tasks, especially in cell-type-specific long-range interaction predictions and genetic variant impacts, advancing our understanding of gene regulation. A free online prediction service is available at http://health.tsinghua.edu.cn/epigept .

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EpigenomicsChromatinEpigenesis, GeneticGenome, HumanHumansSoftwareTranscription FactorsChromatinTranscription Factors3D genomeEpigenomicsGene RegulationLanguage modelTransformer

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PMID39696471
PMCPMC11657395

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