Genome-wide mapping of transcriptional enhancer candidates using DNA and chromatin features in maize.
Rurika OkaJohan ZicolaBlaise WeberSarah N AndersonCharlie HodgmanJonathan I GentJan-Jaap WesselinkNathan M SpringerHuub C J HoefslootFranziska TurckMaike StamPublished in: Genome biology (2017)
Our method identifies three previously identified distal enhancers in maize, validating the new set of enhancer candidates and enlarging the toolbox for the functional characterization of gene regulation in the highly repetitive maize genome.