Systematic screening and mapping of regulatory elements in non-coding genomic regions, methods, compositions, and applications thereof

Abstract

The application relates to methods for identifying putative regulatory elements that regulates a gene, comprising: obtaining a measure of intrinsic activity of a plurality of genomic elements; obtaining a measure of proximity between each of the genomic elements and the gene; scoring a predicted impact of each of the genomic elements on the gene as a function of the measure of intrinsic activity and the measure of proximity, wherein a plurality of predicted impacts scored are ranked to identify at least one genomic element as a putative regulatory element that regulates the gene; and optionally, training, optimizing, and/or validating the scoring of predicted impact using experimental or computational data describing functional interactions between the genomic elements and the gene. The application also relates to methods for identification of transcriptional enhancers and repressors regulating a gene associated with an agricultural trait of interest in plants or a disease phenotype in mammalians.

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