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ArticleScience advances2025

ChromoGen: Diffusion model predicts single-cell chromatin conformations.

Greg Schuette, Zhuohan Lao, Bin Zhang

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Greg SchuetteDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4646-1710
Zhuohan LaoDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Bin ZhangDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3685-7503

Funding

Probing and Perturbing Transcriptional Condensates with Multiscale Modeling and Deep LearningR35GM133580 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI Bin Zhang · 2019 to 2026
$3.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM133580
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Breakthroughs in high-throughput sequencing and microscopic imaging technologies have revealed that chromatin structures vary considerably between cells of the same type. However, a thorough characterization of this heterogeneity remains elusive due to the labor-intensive and time-consuming nature of these experiments. To address these challenges, we introduce ChromoGen, a generative model based on state-of-the-art artificial intelligence techniques that efficiently predicts three-dimensional, single-cell chromatin conformations de novo with both region and cell type specificity. These generated conformations accurately reproduce experimental results at both the single-cell and population levels. Moreover, ChromoGen successfully transfers to cell types excluded from the training data using just DNA sequence and widely available DNase-seq data, thus providing access to chromatin structures in myriad cell types. These achievements come at a remarkably low computational cost. Therefore, ChromoGen enables the systematic investigation of single-cell chromatin organization, its heterogeneity, and its relationship to sequencing data, all while remaining economical.

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ChromatinSingle-Cell AnalysisDiffusionHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansChromatin

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PMCPMC11784829

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