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ATACdb 2.0: a comprehensive chromatin accessibility database of human and mouse
Qiao-Li Fang1,2, Feng-Cui Qian1,3, Zheng-Min Yu2
1The First Affiliated Hospital & Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Multi-omics and Artificial Intelligence of Cardiovascular Diseases, Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan 421001, China.
ATACdb 2.0 enhances chromatin accessibility data with expanded human and mouse samples, offering richer annotations and improved analysis tools for gene regulation studies.
Area of Science:
- Genomics and Epigenomics
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Background:
- Chromatin accessibility is a key indicator of transcriptional activity, essential for understanding gene regulation, cellular functions, and disease pathogenesis.
- Existing resources for chromatin accessibility data require expansion in scale and annotation diversity.
Purpose of the Study:
- To introduce ATACdb 2.0, a significantly improved and expanded database of chromatin accessibility data.
- To enhance the utility of chromatin accessibility information for research in gene regulation and disease mechanisms.
Main Methods:
- Expanded the database by incorporating new mouse data and additional human samples.
- Generated pseudo-bulk ATAC-seq profiles from scATAC-seq data to increase cell type representation.
- Integrated comprehensive genetic and epigenetic annotations, including silencers, CpG islands, meQTLs, histone modifications, eRNAs, TFs, and TcoFs.
Main Results:
- ATACdb 2.0 contains over 319 million chromatin accessibility regions (CARs) from 4,031 human samples and over 75 million CARs from 1,273 mouse samples.
- The database now offers enriched annotations and advanced analytical functions such as 'Search by SNP' and 'Genomic regions enrichment analysis'.
- Introduced optimized target gene identification methods and additional data quality control metrics.
Conclusions:
- ATACdb 2.0 represents a substantial advancement in chromatin accessibility resources, offering greater data volume, diversity, and analytical capabilities.
- The enhanced resource facilitates more comprehensive and reliable exploration of chromatin accessibility's role in gene regulation and disease.
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