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A gene sequence-to-expression machine learning model achieves improved accuracy by incorporating information about potential long-range interactions.

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Fig. 1: Prediction of gene expression by Enformer.

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This work was supported by NIH award U01 HG009395.

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Lu, Y.Y., Noble, W.S. A wider field of view to predict expression. Nat Methods 18, 1155–1156 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01259-4

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