Publications by Romain Fernand Pietro Groux

Insights gained from a comprehensive all-against-all transcription factor binding motif benchmarking study

Philipp Bucher, Giovanna Ambrosini, Romain Fernand Pietro Groux

BackgroundPositional weight matrix (PWM) is a de facto standard model to describe transcription factor (TF) DNA binding specificities. PWMs inferred from in vivo or in vitro data are stored in many databases and used in a plethora of biological application ...

2020

EPD in 2020: enhanced data visualization and extension to ncRNA promoters

Philipp Bucher, Giovanna Ambrosini, Romain Fernand Pietro Groux, René Dreos, Patrick Meylan

The Eukaryotic Promoter Database (EPD), available online at https://epd.epfl.ch, provides accurate transcription start site (TSS) information for promoters of 15 model organisms plus corresponding functional genomics data that can be viewed in a genome bro ...

2020

Computational study of transcription factor binding sites

Romain Fernand Pietro Groux

Any living organism contains a whole set of instructions encoded as genes on the DNA. This set of instructions contains all the necessary information that the organism will ever need, from its development to a mature individual to environment specific resp ...

EPFL2020

SPar-K: a method to partition NGS signal data

Philipp Bucher, Romain Fernand Pietro Groux

We present SPar-K (Signal Partitioning with K-means), a method to search for archetypical chromatin architectures by partitioning a set of genomic regions characterized by chromatin signal profiles around ChIP-seq peaks and other kinds of functional sites. ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2019

PWMScan: a fast tool for scanning entire genomes with a position-specific weight matrix

Philipp Bucher, Giovanna Ambrosini, Romain Fernand Pietro Groux

Transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene expression by binding to specific short DNA sequences of 5 to 20-bp to regulate the rate of transcription of genetic information from DNA to messenger RNA. We present PWMScan, a fast web-based tool to scan server-r ...

2018

MGA repository: a curated data resource for ChIP-seq and other genome annotated data

Rouayda Cavin Perier, Philipp Bucher, Giovanna Ambrosini, Romain Fernand Pietro Groux, René Dreos

Oxford University Press2018

SMiLE-seq identifies binding motifs of single and dimeric transcription factors

Philipp Bucher, Didier Trono, Giovanna Ambrosini, Bart Deplancke, Romain Fernand Pietro Groux, Alina Isakova, Pernille Yde Rainer, Michaël Imbeault, Riccardo Dainese, Daniel Alpern

Resolving the DNA-binding specificities of transcription factors (TFs) is of critical value for understanding gene regulation. Here, we present a novel, semiautomated protein-DNA interaction characterization technology, selective microfluidics-based ligand ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

The eukaryotic promoter database in its 30th year: focus on non-vertebrate organisms

Rouayda Cavin Perier, Philipp Bucher, Giovanna Ambrosini, Romain Fernand Pietro Groux, René Dreos

We present an update of the Eukaryotic Promoter Database EPD (http://epd.vital-it.ch), more specifically on the EPDnew division, which contains comprehensive organisms-specific transcription start site (TSS) collections automatically derived from next gene ...

2017