Lisa

Inferring transcriptional regulators through integrative modeling of public chromatin accessibility and ChIP-seq data.

Lisa (epigenetic Landscape In Silico deletion Analysis) predicts the transcription factors most likely to regulate a user-supplied gene set by integrating tens of thousands of public ChIP-seq and chromatin accessibility datasets (Qin et al., 2020). It models the chromatin landscape around each gene and uses in silico deletion of regulatory elements to score candidate regulators.

Lisa is widely used by experimental and computational groups to generate mechanistic hypotheses from differential expression results, screen hits, and disease-associated gene panels. It is part of the broader Cistrome ecosystem (Mei et al., 2017), sharing its curated data foundation. Source code and a Python package are available on GitHub.

References

2020

  1. Genome Biol
    Lisa: inferring transcriptional regulators through integrative modeling of public chromatin accessibility and ChIP-seq data
    Qian Qin, J Fan, R Zheng, and 8 more authors
    Genome Biology*Co-first authors , 2020

2017

  1. NAR
    Cistrome Data Browser: a data portal for ChIP-seq and chromatin accessibility data in human and mouse
    S Mei, Qian Qin, Q Wu, and 11 more authors
    Nucleic Acids Research*Co-first authors , 2017