De novo distillation of thermodynamic affinity from deep learning regulatory sequence models of in vivo protein-DNA binding
Amr M. Alexandari, Connor A. Horton, Avanti Shrikumar, Nilay Shah, Eileen Li, Melanie Weilert, Miles A. Pufall, Julia Zeitlinger, Polly Morrell Fordyce, Anshul Bharat Kundaje
The paper introduces Affinity Distillation (AD), a method to extract thermodynamic affinities from deep learning models of in vivo TF binding, showing it outperforms motif-based methods in predicting sequence variation impacts.
bioRxiv · May 11, 2023 · PreprintGenomics