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The integration of single-cell transcriptome data, transcription factor motif data, and ChIP-seq data presents a challenging task in identifying cell-type-specific regulons and examining their activities.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In response, this study presents a Deep Structured Semantic Model for inferring and prioritizing cell-type-specific Regulons (DSSMReg). This approach utilizes single-cell transcriptome and transcription factor motif data to map transcription factors and target genes into a low-dimensional semantic space, resulting in the generation of feature vectors. The model then computes the cosine similarity between transcription factors and target genes to evaluate their regulatory strength and subsequently infers cell-type-specific regulons based on this assessment. 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