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SCENIC is an R package to infer Gene Regulatory Networks and cell types from single-cell RNA-seq data.
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How does Rcistarget utilize two databases for scoring motifs? #156

Closed KoichiHashikawa closed 2 years ago

KoichiHashikawa commented 4 years ago

Hello,

I tried to understand how Rcistarget scores motifs by utilizing the two databases, for example, mm9-500bp-upstream-7species.mc9nr.feather and mm9-tss-centered-10kb-7species.mc9nr.feather.

Is Rcistarget searching for motif enrichment in 500bp upstream of TSS or 10kb +-? Are motifs in the -500bp more valued than the ones found in 10kb+-?

If I want to expand the search window (e.g. 15kb), how I could generate the database?

In addition, in https://resources.aertslab.org/cistarget/databases/mus_musculus/, there are mm8,9,10. what are the major diffferences?

Thank you so much.