TY  - JOUR
A1  - Madsen, Jesper Grud Skat
A1  - Rauch, Alexander
A1  - Van Hauwaert, Elvira Laila
A1  - Schmidt, 
Søren Fisker
A1  - Winnefeld, Marc
A1  - Mandrup, Susanne
T1  - Integrated analysis of motif activity and gene expression changes of transcription factors
Y1  - 2018/02/01 
JF  - Genome Research 
JO  - Genome Research 
SP  - 243 
EP  - 255 
DO  - 10.1101/gr.227231.117 
VL  - 28 
IS  - 2 
UR  - http://genome.cshlp.org/content/28/2/243.abstract 
N2  - The ability to predict transcription factors based on sequence information in regulatory elements is a key step in systems-level investigation of transcriptional regulation. Here, we have developed a novel tool, IMAGE, for precise prediction of causal transcription factors based on transcriptome profiling and genome-wide maps of enhancer activity. High precision is obtained by combining a near-complete database of position weight matrices (PWMs), generated by compiling public databases and systematic prediction of PWMs for uncharacterized transcription factors, with a state-of-the-art method for PWM scoring and a novel machine learning strategy, based on both enhancers and promoters, to predict the contribution of motifs to transcriptional activity. We applied IMAGE to published data obtained during 3T3-L1 adipocyte differentiation and showed that IMAGE predicts causal transcriptional regulators of this process with higher confidence than existing methods. Furthermore, we generated genome-wide maps of enhancer activity and transcripts during human mesenchymal stem cell commitment and adipocyte differentiation and used IMAGE to identify positive and negative transcriptional regulators of this process. Collectively, our results demonstrate that IMAGE is a powerful and precise method for prediction of regulators of gene expression. 
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