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Sam Dieltiens

VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease ResearchORCID 0000-0003-1165-2189Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:deep learning· 2 Organism:mouse· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Organism:human· 1 Organism:rat· 1 Assay:scATAC-seq· 1

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GenomicsNature MethodsPeer-reviewedApr 2, 2026

CREsted: modeling genomic and synthetic cell type-specific enhancers across tissues and species

Niklas Kempynck, Seppe De Winter, Casper H. Blaauw…·Stein Aerts

CREsted is a software package for modeling and designing cell type-specific enhancers using deep learning, validated across tissues and species.

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GenomicsSciencePeer-reviewedFeb 13, 2025

Enhancer-driven cell type comparison reveals similarities between the mammalian and bird pallium

Nikolai Hecker, Niklas Kempynck, David Mauduit…·Stein Aerts

The paper compares enhancer codes of cell types between mammalian neocortex and avian pallium using deep learning, finding higher divergence in excitatory neurons than other cell types.

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