Spatial ATAC-seq

Mapping Open chromatin: A deeper dive into spatial ATAC-seq at the cellular level

Spatial ATAC-seq

Spatial profiling of chromatin accessibility in mouse and human tissues

Yanxiang Deng1,2, Marek Bartosovic3, Sai Ma4, Di Zhang1, Petra Kukanja3, Yang Xiao5, Graham Su1,2, Yang Liu1,2, Xiaoyu Qin1,2, Gorazd B. Rosoklija6,7,8, Andrew J. Dwork6,7,8,9, J. John Mann6,7,10, Mina L. Xu11, Stephanie Halene2,12,13, Joseph E. Craft14, Kam W. Leong5,15, Maura Boldrini6,7, Gonçalo Castelo-Branco3,16  & Rong Fan1,2,11,17

Spatial ATAC-seq protocol

Detecting potential transcription factors/ regulatory elements

From reads to insight: a hitchhiker’s guide to ATAC-seq data analysis

Defining Cell types: General analysis of chromatin state

Analyze region of interest

Match omics with morphology

Identify cell neighborhoods by gene activity score

Annotate Clusters

Exploring regulatory elements with spatial ATAC-seq

Map gene accessibility

Motif analysis for transcription binding sites

Identify unique cis regulator elements (potential enhancer, promoter elements)