Jens Boch

The paper uses time-resolved RNA-seq data to study the dynamic expression of TALE target genes during rice infection by Xanthomonas oryzae pathogens, identifying direct and secondary targets and non-coding transcripts.

The paper assembles repetitive TALomes in Xanthomonas using Oxford Nanopore sequencing and presents a correction pipeline to improve accuracy.

The paper improves TALE target prediction by integrating epigenetic features, showing that combining chromatin accessibility and DNA methylation data enhances prediction accuracy.

PrediTALE improves TALE target prediction by incorporating biological insights and quantitative data, identifying novel virulence targets and highlighting limitations in current gene annotations.