spatzie: an R package for identifying significant transcription factor motif co-enrichment from enhancer–promoter interactions

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Genomic interactions provide important context to our understanding of the state of the genome. One question is whether specific transcription factor interactions give rise to genome organization. We introduce spatzie, an R...

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Main Authors: Hammelman, Jennifer, Krismer, Konstantin, Gifford, David K
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computational and Systems Biology Program
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/143574
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Summary:<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Genomic interactions provide important context to our understanding of the state of the genome. One question is whether specific transcription factor interactions give rise to genome organization. We introduce spatzie, an R package and a website that implements statistical tests for significant transcription factor motif cooperativity between enhancer–promoter interactions. We conducted controlled experiments under realistic simulated data from ChIP-seq to confirm spatzie is capable of discovering co-enriched motif interactions even in noisy conditions. We then use spatzie to investigate cell type specific transcription factor cooperativity within recent human ChIA-PET enhancer–promoter interaction data. The method is available online at https://spatzie.mit.edu.</jats:p>