cell2net

Active development

Connect DNA sequence, chromatin accessibility, and gene expression in single cells.

  • Single-cell
  • Multi-omics
  • Regulatory networks

A Python framework for modeling gene regulation from paired single-cell RNA-seq and ATAC-seq data. It combines transcription factor expression, peak accessibility, and sequence features to predict gene expression and investigate regulatory relationships.

pychromVAR

Compare motif-associated chromatin accessibility across single cells.

  • Single-cell
  • Chromatin accessibility
  • Transcription factors

A Python implementation of chromVAR for analyzing transcription factor motif-associated variability in single-cell ATAC-seq data. Built on AnnData and MuData, it connects regulatory activity analysis with Scanpy and Muon workflows.

motifmatchpy

Find candidate transcription factor binding motifs in DNA sequences.

  • Motif analysis
  • Regulatory genomics
  • DNA sequence

A Python implementation of MOODS motif matching, accelerated with Numba. It scans DNA using position weight matrices and supports higher-order models and sequence variants, providing motif annotations for regulatory genomics workflows.

scOpen

Estimate chromatin accessibility from sparse single-cell ATAC-seq data.

  • Single-cell
  • Chromatin accessibility

scOpen uses matrix factorization to recover accessibility estimates and compact representations of cells. These outputs support cell-state analysis and the study of relationships between regulatory regions.

Published 2021

Citation for scOpen

Li Z., Kuppe C., et al. Chromatin-accessibility estimation from single-cell ATAC-seq data with scOpen. Nature Communications 12, 6386 (2021). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26530-2.

scMEGA

Connect transcription factors, enhancers, and genes in single cells.

  • Single-cell
  • Multi-omics
  • Regulatory networks

scMEGA integrates single-cell gene expression and chromatin accessibility to infer enhancer-based gene regulatory networks. It helps identify regulatory programs associated with differentiation and disease-related changes in cell state.

Published 2023

Citation for scMEGA

Li Z., Nagai J. S., Kuppe C., Kramann R., Costa I. G. scMEGA: single-cell multi-omic enhancer-based gene regulatory network inference. Bioinformatics Advances 3, vbad003 (2023). DOI: 10.1093/bioadv/vbad003.

RGT

Integrate genomic regions and signals to investigate gene regulation.

  • Regulatory genomics
  • Footprinting
  • Epigenomics

The Regulatory Genomics Toolbox brings together methods for ATAC-seq, DNase-seq, and ChIP-seq analysis. Footprinting, motif analysis, and visualization help connect epigenomic measurements to transcription factor activity and regulatory function.

Published 2023

Citation for RGT

Li Z., Kuo C.-C., et al. RGT: a toolbox for the integrative analysis of high throughput regulatory genomics data. BMC Bioinformatics 24, 79 (2023). DOI: 10.1186/s12859-023-05184-5.