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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2026

Refining sequence-to-expression modelling with chromatin accessibility.

Orsolya Lapohos, Gregory J Fonseca, Amin Emad

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Orsolya LapohosDepartment of Quantitative Life Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 0G4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-9409-2484
Gregory J FonsecaMeakins-Christie Laboratories, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, H4A 3J1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-3073-5724
Amin EmadDepartment of Quantitative Life Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 0G4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-5108-4887

Funding

Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) JELF 40781Digital Research Alliance of CanadaNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada RGPIN-2019-04460
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationSequence-to-expression models typically do not consider chromatin accessibility, a major factor limiting gene regulation. We hypothesized that supplying accessibility as an input feature would allow a sequence-to-expression model to focus on important open regions of the genome.

resultsWe found that the performance of such an augmented model was significantly better than that of sequence-only or accessibility-only models with similar architectures. Specifically, its ability to predict the expression of highly variable genes and gene expression in other cell types improved, and higher attribution scores in the input DNA sequences of the augmented model conformed to accessibility, enabling the learning of cell type-specific sequence patterns. Additionally, we show that fine-tuning a pre-trained sequence-only model with both sequence and accessibility can boost performance further and highlight the importance of sequencing depth in sequence-to-expression prediction. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Source code is available on GitHub at https://github.com/lapohosorsolya/accessible_seq2exp.

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ChromatinModels, GeneticSequence Analysis, DNAHumansChromatin

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PMID42036810
PMCPMC13171176

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