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Sequence-based modeling of plant epigenomes reveals cell-type-specific cis-regulatory grammar

Jul 2026 · bioRxiv · 0 citations · 56 references
Biology

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PEAgent provides a foundational resource for decoding cell-type-specific plant cis-regulatory logic and interpreting noncoding variation in plants, and distinguishes grass-conserved from lineage-specific regulatory sequences better than sequence conservation scores alone.

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