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ArticleCell reports methods2025

Comparative analysis of gene regulation in single cells using Compass.

Changxin Wan, Yilong Qu, Zhiyou Ye, Tianbei Zhang, Huifang Ma, Ming Chen, Wenpin Hou, Zhicheng Ji

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Article in Cell reports methods, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  2. Smmit: A pipeline for integrating multiple single-cell multi-omics samples.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Changxin WanDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA; Program of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Yilong QuDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Zhiyou YeDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Tianbei ZhangDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Huifang MaDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Ming ChenDepartment of Pathology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA; Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Wenpin HouDepartment of Biostatistics, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York City, NY, USA.
Zhicheng JiDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA; Program of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA. Electronic address: zhicheng.ji@duke.edu.

Funding

The Duke Senescent Cell Evaluations in Normal Tissues (SCENT) Mapping CenterU54AG075936 · NIA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI GLASS, CAROLYN · 2021 to 2025
$12.7M
Methods for inferring and analyzing gene regulatory networks using single-cell multiomics and spatial genomics dataR35GM150887 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI Wenpin Hou · 2023 to 2026
$1.6M
Computational methods for in situ spatial transcriptomicsR35GM154865 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI Zhicheng Ji · 2024 to 2026
$1.2M
Computational Methods for Inferring Single-cell DNA Methylation and its Spatial LandscapeR00HG011468 · NHGRI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI HOU, WENPIN · 2022 to 2024
$747k
NHGRI NIH HHS R00 HG011468NIA NIH HHS U54 AG075936NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM150887NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM154865
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-cell multi-omics is a transformative technology that measures both gene expression and chromatin accessibility in individual cells. However, most studies concentrate on a single tissue and are unable to determine whether a gene is regulated by a cis-regulatory element (CRE) in just one tissue or across multiple tissues. We developed Compass for comparative analysis of gene regulation across a large number of human and mouse tissues. Compass consists of a database, CompassDB, and an open-source R software package, CompassR. CompassDB contains processed single-cell multi-omics data of more than 2.8 million cells from hundreds of cell types. Building upon CompassDB, CompassR enables visualization and comparison of gene regulation across multiple tissues. We demonstrated that CompassR can identify CRE-gene linkages specific to a tissue type and their associated transcription factors in real examples.

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Gene Expression RegulationSingle-Cell AnalysisSoftwareAnimalsChromatinDatabases, GeneticHumansMiceTranscription FactorsChromatinTranscription Factorscis-regulatory elementsCP: Systems biologygene regulationsingle-cell ATAC-seqsingle-cell multi-omics

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PMCPMC12146641

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