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Quantitative Comparison of cis-Regulatory Element (CRE) Activities in Transgenic Drosophila melanogaster
Published on: December 19, 2011
CroCoNet: a framework for the quantitative comparison of gene regulatory networks across species
Anita Térmeg1, Vladyslav Storozhuk1, Zane Kliesmete1
1Anthropology and Human Genomics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 82152, Planegg, Germany.
Abstract:
To understand phenotypic evolution, it is essential to investigate the underlying gene regulatory networks (GRNs). However, most comparative GRN analyzes remain descriptive due to the low signal-to-noise ratio inherent in single-cell transcriptomics data. To address this, we introduce CroCoNet (Cross-species Comparison of Networks), an R-package for quantitative GRN comparison across species. CroCoNet builds comparable network modules centered on putative regulators and compares module topologies within and between species, distinguishing true evolutionary divergence from technical and biological confounders. We demonstrate its utility by comparing early neural differentiation across primates and validating results with a CRISPRi analysis of the diverged POU5F1 module.
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