Zain Munir Patel
zainmunirpatel.bsky.social
Zain Munir Patel
@zainmunirpatel.bsky.social
Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Med, Mass Gen Hospital and Broad with Luca Pinello. Ph.D. from UofT in Molecular Genetics with Tim Hughes
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It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.
February 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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(1/7) Thrilled to reveal the results of the Codebook Project, an international effort to identify accurate DNA-binding motifs and genomic binding loci for the >300 uncharacterized human transcription factors (TFs) doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Perspectives on Codebook: sequence specificity of uncharacterized human transcription factors
We describe an effort (“Codebook”) to determine the sequence specificity of 332 putative and largely uncharacterized human transcription factors (TFs), as well as 61 control TFs. Nearly 5,000 independ...
doi.org
November 15, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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(1/8) 🚀 Excited to share our findings on a large-scale ChIP-seq assay for 166 previously uncharacterized human transcription factors (TFs) and their roles in both regulatory regions, and more strikingly, the “dark matter” genome. 🌌 doi.org/10.1101/2024....
Extensive binding of uncharacterized human transcription factors to genomic dark matter
Most of the human genome is thought to be non-functional, and includes large segments often referred to as “dark matter” DNA. The genome also encodes hundreds of putative and poorly characterized tran...
doi.org
November 15, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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(1/12) Excited to present the results of the large-scale benchmarking of DNA motif discovery tools using the Codebook data compendium on poorly studied human transcription factors and the Codebook Motif Explorer: dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024..., mex.autosome.org ⬇️.
November 14, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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Incredible resource for DNA binding protein specificity from the Codebook consortium.

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Am reading these in detail & will have a lot to say. Stay tuned for thoughts.
Extensive binding of uncharacterized human transcription factors to genomic dark matter
Most of the human genome is thought to be non-functional, and includes large segments often referred to as "dark matter" DNA. The genome also encodes hundreds of putative and poorly characterized tran...
www.biorxiv.org
November 13, 2024 at 6:35 PM