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8 Enhancer discovery and characterization

ENCODE has developed methods to discover enhancers, and characterized them using comparisons with other data sets and by molecular biology experiments

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Figure 6: Experimental characterization of segmentations.
Supplementary Figure 5: Distribution of looping interactions across cell types and functional groups.
Figure 5: A genome-wide map of distal DHS-to-promoter connectivity.
Supplementary Figure 14: Interaction and GO class enrichments via signal-vector correlation.
Figure 6: Stereotyped regulation of chromatin accessibility.
Figure 5: Classifier performance for various classification tasks.

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