Embeddings of genomic region sets capture rich biological associations in lower dimensions

• DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab439
• Publication Date: 2021-06-15T19:14:17Z
• Authors: Erfaneh Gharavi; Aaron Gu; Guangtao Zheng; Jason P Smith; Hyun Jae Cho; Aidong Zhang; Donald E Brown; Nathan C Sheffield
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; 03 medical and health sciences; Genomics; Protein Binding

Genomic region sets summarize functional genomics data and define locations of interest in the genome such as regulatory regions or transcription factor binding sites. The number publicly available has increased dramatically, leading to challenges analysis.