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These formations, called transcriptional condensates, appear to play important roles in gene regulation as they are assembled through the association of multiple enhancer regions in 3D genomic space. To date, we are still lacking efficient computational methodologies to identify the regions responsible for the formation of such condensates, based on genomic and conformational data.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>In this work, we present SEGCOND, a computational framework aiming to highlight genomic regions involved in the formation of transcriptional condensates. SEGCOND is flexible in combining multiple genomic datasets related to enhancer activity and chromatin accessibility, to perform a genome segmentation. It then uses this segmentation for the detection of highly transcriptionally active regions of the genome. At a final step, and through the integration of Hi-C data, it identifies regions of putative transcriptional condensates (PTCs) as genomic domains where multiple enhancer elements coalesce in 3D space. SEGCOND identifies a subset of enhancer segments with increased transcriptional activity. PTCs are also found to significantly overlap highly interconnected enhancer elements and super enhancers obtained through two independent approaches. Application of SEGCOND on data from a well-defined system of B-cell to macrophage transdifferentiation leads to the identification of previously unreported genes with a likely role in the process.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Source code and details for the implementation of SEGCOND is available at https:\/\/github.com\/AntonisK95\/SEGCOND<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Supplementary information<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btac742","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,16]],"date-time":"2022-11-16T22:50:09Z","timestamp":1668639009000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["SEGCOND predicts putative transcriptional condensate-associated genomic regions by integrating multi-omics data"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"39","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9850-6971","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Antonios","family":"Klonizakis","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Genome Biology Program, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), C\/ del Dr. Aiguader 88 , Barcelona 08003, Spain"},{"name":"Department of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Doctor Aiguader 88 , Barcelona 08003, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3001-6786","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Christoforos","family":"Nikolaou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Bioinnovation, Biomedical Sciences Research Centre \u2018Alexander Fleming\u2019, Fleming 34 , Vari 16672, Greece"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Thomas","family":"Graf","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Genome Biology Program, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), C\/ del Dr. Aiguader 88 , Barcelona 08003, Spain"},{"name":"Department of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Doctor Aiguader 88 , Barcelona 08003, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023010107541035400_btac742-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"749","DOI":"10.1038\/s41576-021-00398-w","article-title":"Testing the super-enhancer concept","volume":"22","author":"Blobel","year":"2021","journal-title":"Nat. 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