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CressInt: A user-friendly web resource for genome-scale explorationof gene regulation in Arabidopsis thaliana
tThe thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana is a powerful model organism for studying a wide variety of biologicalprocesses. Recent advances in sequencing technology have resulted in a wealth of information describingnumerous aspects of A. thaliana genome function. However, there is a relative paucity of computationalsystems for efficiently and effectively using these data to create testable hypotheses. We present CressInt,a user-friendly web resource for exploring gene regulatory mechanisms in A. thaliana on a genomic scale.The CressInt system incorporates a variety of genome-wide data types relevant to gene regulation, includ-ing transcription factor (TF) binding site models, ChIP-seq, DNase-seq, eQTLs, and GWAS. We demonstratethe utility of CressInt by showing how the system can be used to (1) Identify TFs binding to the promoterof a gene of interest; (2) identify genetic variants that are likely to impact TF binding based on a ChIP-seqdataset; and (3) identify specific TFs whose binding might be impacted by phenotype-associated variants.
Keywords:ArabidopsisFunctional genomicsTranscription factorsGene regulationSystems biologyWeb serverComputational tools
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