Ling Liu’s beautiful PhD work on modeling transcriptional elongation and its genomic and epigenomic determinants is now published. A technical tour de force with a number of interesting biological observations academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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Probabilistic and machine-learning methods for predicting local rates of transcription elongation from nascent RNA sequencing data
Abstract. Rates of transcription elongation vary within and across eukaryotic gene bodies. Here, we introduce new methods for predicting elongation rates f