Project description:Here, we present new functional genomic resources for the amphipod crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis, facilitating the exploration of gene regulatory evolution using this emerging research organism. We use Omni-ATAC-Seq, an improved form of the Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin coupled with next-generation sequencing (ATAC-Seq), to identify accessible chromatin genome-wide across a broad time course of Parhyale embryonic development. This time course encompasses many major morphological events, including segmentation, body regionalization, gut morphogenesis, and limb development. In addition, we use short- and long-read RNA-Seq to generate an improved Parhyale genome annotation, enabling deeper classification of identified regulatory elements. We leverage a variety of bioinformatic tools to discover differential accessibility, predict nucleosome positioning, infer transcription factor binding, cluster peaks based on accessibility dynamics, classify biological functions, and correlate gene expression with accessibility.
Project description:We performed RNA-Seq across multiple time points of development (stages 13, 19, 21, 23) in Parhyale hawaiensis and generated an improved genome annotation.
Project description:Dissection of the functional input of transcription factors in embryos at a molecular and cellular level by sci-ATAC-seq profiling wild-type and TF mutant embryos on a time course of mesoderm/muscle development.
Project description:We describe the NucleoATAC algorithm for high-resolution nucleosome positioning and occupancy determination using ATAC-seq. ATAC-seq was performed on Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccaromyces pombe. Nucleosomes were called for both species as well as for the human GM12878 cell line using data from GSE47753. Additionally, ATAC-seq was performed on S. cerevisiae undergoing an osmotic stress time-course and nucleosomes were called for each time point.
