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TRAPT

Zhang G, Song C, Yin M, Liu L, Zhang Y, Li Y, Zhang J, Guo M, Li C

2025 · Nature communications

It is challenging to identify regulatory transcriptional regulators (TRs), which control gene expression via regulatory elements and epigenomic signals, in context-specific studies on the onset and progression of…

Abstract

From the original paper, Nature communications · PubMed

It is challenging to identify regulatory transcriptional regulators (TRs), which control gene expression via regulatory elements and epigenomic signals, in context-specific studies on the onset and progression of diseases. The use of large-scale multi-omics epigenomic data enables the representation of the complex epigenomic patterns of control of the regulatory elements and the regulators. Herein, we propose Transcription Regulator Activity Prediction Tool (TRAPT), a multi-modality deep learning framework, which infers regulator activity by learning and integrating the regulatory potentials of target gene cis-regulatory elements and genome-wide binding sites. The results of experiments on 570 TR-related datasets show that TRAPT outperformed state-of-the-art methods in predicting the TRs, especially in terms of forecasting transcription co-factors and chromatin regulators. Moreover, we successfully identify key TRs associated with diseases, genetic variations, cell-fate decisions, and tissues. Our method provides an innovative perspective on identifying TRs by using epigenomic data.

Summary

Editorial summary pending review by the maintainer. The paper's own abstract appears above; the Atlas summary in the maintainer's voice will explain how TRAPT relates to the cross-modality inverse-design framework of the review.

Why this level

Level 1 because the method scores candidate interventions through static regulatory-network influence relative to a target GRN, without computing the post-intervention state P^S,u\hat P_{S,u}. Representation family is regulatory-network influence. Cited in §3.2 of the review. Editorial rationale pending review by the maintainer.

Classification

Level
L1
Representation
Regulatory-network influence
Modalities
P
Intervention
Transcription factors
Framework
Static network analysis

Software

Reproducibility
4 of 4
FAIR4RS
4 of 5

Last audited 2026-05-24

Citation

Zhang G et al. (2025). TRAPT: a multi-stage fused deep learning framework for predicting transcriptional regulators based on large-scale epigenomic data., Nature communications.

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58921-0

PMID: 40240358

BibTeX
@article{trapt2025,
  title  = {TRAPT: a multi-stage fused deep learning framework for predicting transcriptional regulators based on large-scale epigenomic data.},
  author = {Zhang G et al.},
  year   = {2025},
  journal = {Nature communications},
  pmid = {40240358},
  doi  = {10.1038/s41467-025-58921-0}
}