Shaping the nebulous enhancer in the era of high-throughput assays and genome editing.

Abstract:

:Since the 1st discovery of transcriptional enhancers in 1981, their textbook definition has remained largely unchanged in the past 37 years. With the emergence of high-throughput assays and genome editing, which are switching the paradigm from bottom-up discovery and testing of individual enhancers to top-down profiling of enhancer activities genome-wide, it has become increasingly evidenced that this classical definition has left substantial gray areas in different aspects. Here we survey a representative set of recent research articles and report the definitions of enhancers they have adopted. The results reveal that a wide spectrum of definitions is used usually without the definition stated explicitly, which could lead to difficulties in data interpretation and downstream analyses. Based on these findings, we discuss the practical implications and suggestions for future studies.

journal_name

Brief Bioinform

authors

Ho EY,Cao Q,Gu M,Chan RW,Wu Q,Gerstein M,Yip KY

doi

10.1093/bib/bbz030

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-05-21 00:00:00

pages

836-850

issue

3

eissn

1467-5463

issn

1477-4054

pii

5381766

journal_volume

21

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