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Research from the Hughes lab and our collaborators. Explore journal articles and preprints, with links to data, code, and earlier versions.

201 publications

2026

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GHT-SELEX demonstrates unexpectedly high intrinsic sequence specificity and complex DNA binding of many human transcription factors

Jolma A, Hernandez-Corchado A, Yang AWH, Fathi A, Laverty KU, Brechalov A, Razavi R, Albu M, Zheng H, Codebook Consortium, Kulakovskiy IV, Najafabadi HS, Hughes TR

Nature methods 23, 1775-1785 · 2026

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An expanded codebook of human transcription factor DNA-binding specificity

Jolma A, Laverty KU, Fathi A, Yang AWH, Yellan I, Vorontsov IE, Gralak AJ, Kribelbauer-Swietek JF, Inukai S, Razavi R, Albu M, Brechalov A, Patel ZM, Nozdrin V, Meshcheryakov G, Buyan A, Kozin I, Abramov S, Boytsov A, Codebook Consortium, Morris Q, Weirauch MT, Fornes O, Makeev VJ, Grau J, Grosse I, Bucher P, Deplancke B, Kulakovskiy IV, Hughes TR

Nature 657, 275-283 · 2026

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Systematic investigation reveals extensive Epstein-Barr virus transcriptional regulation of the human genome

Dexheimer PJ, Hass MR, Edsall LE, Diouf AA, Jones SH, Donmez O, Yin C, Dunn KA, Forney C, Hesse HK, VonHandorf A, Chen X, Parameswaran S, Gittens OE, Viel KCMF, Razavi R, Gewurz BE, Zhao B, Lawson LP, Hughes TR, Kottyan LC, Weirauch MT

Cell genomics 6, 101303 · 2026

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Identification of methylation-sensitive human transcription factors using meSMiLE-seq

Gralak AJ, Faltejskova K, Yang AWH, Steiner C, Russeil J, Grenningloh N, Inukai S, Demir M, Dainese R, Owen C, Pankevich EV, Codebook/GRECO-BIT Consortium, Hughes TR, Kulakovskiy IV, Kribelbauer-Swietek JF, van Mierlo G, Deplancke B

Nature communications 17 · 2026

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Extensive binding of poorly characterized human transcription factors to genomic dark matter

Razavi R, Fathi A, Yellan I, Brechalov A, Laverty KU, Jolma A, Hernandez-Corchado A, Zheng H, Yang AWH, Albu M, Barazandeh M, Hu C, Vorontsov IE, Patel ZM, Codebook Consortium, Kulakovskiy IV, Bucher P, Morris Q, Najafabadi HS, Hughes TR

Nature communications 17 · 2026

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2025

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Inferring binding specificities of human transcription factors with the wisdom of crowds

Gryzunov N, Penzar D, Kamenets V, Vyaltsev V, Kozin I, Eliseeva IA, Nozdrin V, Vorontsov IE, Bushuev S, Strekalovskikh V, Zinkevich A, Andrews G, Bedarew M, Blass I, Frolov D, Lariushina I, Moore J, Orenstein Y, Roev G, Salimov D, Shimshoviz N, Tziony I, Weng Z, IBIS Consortium, GRECO-BIT/Codebook Consortium, Bucher P, Deplancke B, Fornes O, Grau J, Grosse I, Jolma A, Kolpakov FA, Makeev VJ, Hughes TR, Kulakovskiy IV

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025

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Cross-platform motif discovery and benchmarking to explore binding specificities of poorly studied human transcription factors

Vorontsov IE, Kozin I, Abramov S, Boytsov A, Jolma A, Albu M, Ambrosini G, Faltejskova K, Gralak AJ, Gryzunov N, Inukai S, Kolmykov S, Kravchenko P, Kribelbauer-Swietek JF, Laverty KU, Nozdrin V, Patel ZM, Penzar D, Plescher ML, Pour SE, Razavi R, Yang AWH, Yevshin I, Zinkevich A, Weirauch MT, Bucher P, Deplancke B, Fornes O, Grau J, Grosse I, Kolpakov FA, Codebook/GRECO-BIT Consortium, Makeev VJ, Hughes TR, Kulakovskiy IV

Communications biology 8, 1545 · 2025

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A multimorphic mutation in IRF4 causes human autosomal dominant combined immunodeficiency

IRF4 International Consortium, Fornes O, Jia A, Kuehn HS, Min Q, Pannicke U, Schleussner N, Thouenon R, Yu Z, de Los Angeles Astbury M, Biggs CM, Galicchio M, Garcia-Campos JA, Gismondi S, Gonzalez Villarreal G, Hildebrand KJ, Hönig M, Hou J, Moshous D, Pittaluga S, Qian X, Rozmus J, Schulz AS, Staines-Boone AT, Sun B, Sun J, Uwe S, Venegas-Montoya E, Wang W, Wang X, Ying W, Zhai X, Zhou Q, Akalin A, André I, Barth TFE, Baumann B, Brüstle A, Burgio G, Bustamante JC, Casanova JL, Casarotto MG, Cavazzana M, Chentout L, Cockburn IA, Costanza M, Cui C, Daumke O, Del Bel KL, Eibel H, Feng X, Franke V, Gebhardt JCM, Götz A, Grunwald S, Hoareau B, Hughes TR, Jacobsen EM, Janz M, Jolma A, Lagresle-Peyrou C, Lai N, Li Y, Lin S, Lu HY, Lugo-Reyes SO, Meng X, Möller P, Moreno-Corona N, Niemela JE, Novakovsky G, Perez-Caraballo JJ, Picard C, Poggi L, Puig-Lombardi ME, Randall KL, Reisser A, Schmitt Y, Seneviratne S, Sharma M, Stoddard J, Sundararaj S, Sutton H, Tran LQ, Wang Y, Wasserman WW, Wen Z, Winkler W, Xiong E, Yang AWH, Yu M, Zhang L, Zhang H, Zhao Q, Zhen X, Enders A, Kracker S, Martinez-Barricarte R, Mathas S, Rosenzweig SD, Schwarz K, Turvey SE, Wang JY

Science immunology 8, eade7953 · 2023

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The RNA-binding protein SERBP1 functions as a novel oncogenic factor in glioblastoma by bridging cancer metabolism and epigenetic regulation

Kosti A, de Araujo PR, Li WQ, Guardia GDA, Chiou J, Yi C, Ray D, Meliso F, Li YM, Delambre T, Qiao M, Burns SS, Lorbeer FK, Georgi F, Flosbach M, Klinnert S, Jenseit A, Lei X, Sandoval CR, Ha K, Zheng H, Pandey R, Gruslova A, Gupta YK, Brenner A, Kokovay E, Hughes TR, Morris QD, Galante PAF, Tiziani S, Penalva LOF

Genome biology 21, 195 · 2020

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Functional Analysis and Fine Mapping of the 9p22.2 Ovarian Cancer Susceptibility Locus

Buckley MA, Woods NT, Tyrer JP, Mendoza-Fandiño G, Lawrenson K, Hazelett DJ, Najafabadi HS, Gjyshi A, Carvalho RS, Lyra PC, Coetzee SG, Shen HC, Yang AW, Earp MA, Yoder SJ, Risch H, Chenevix-Trench G, Ramus SJ, Phelan CM, Coetzee GA, Noushmehr H, Hughes TR, Sellers TA, Goode EL, Pharoah PD, Gayther SA, Monteiro ANA, Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium

Cancer research 79, 467-481 · 2019

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Early evolution of the T-box transcription factor family

Sebé-Pedrós A, Ariza-Cosano A, Weirauch MT, Leininger S, Yang A, Torruella G, Adamski M, Adamska M, Hughes TR, Gómez-Skarmeta JL, Ruiz-Trillo I

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110, 16050-5 · 2013

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A compendium of RNA-binding motifs for decoding gene regulation

Ray D, Kazan H, Cook KB, Weirauch MT, Najafabadi HS, Li X, Gueroussov S, Albu M, Zheng H, Yang A, Na H, Irimia M, Matzat LH, Dale RK, Smith SA, Yarosh CA, Kelly SM, Nabet B, Mecenas D, Li W, Laishram RS, Qiao M, Lipshitz HD, Piano F, Corbett AH, Carstens RP, Frey BJ, Anderson RA, Lynch KW, Penalva LO, Lei EP, Fraser AG, Blencowe BJ, Morris QD, Hughes TR

Nature 499, 172-7 · 2013

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A critical assessment of Mus musculus gene function prediction using integrated genomic evidence

Peña-Castillo L, Tasan M, Myers CL, Lee H, Joshi T, Zhang C, Guan Y, Leone M, Pagnani A, Kim WK, Krumpelman C, Tian W, Obozinski G, Qi Y, Mostafavi S, Lin GN, Berriz GF, Gibbons FD, Lanckriet G, Qiu J, Grant C, Barutcuoglu Z, Hill DP, Warde-Farley D, Grouios C, Ray D, Blake JA, Deng M, Jordan MI, Noble WS, Morris Q, Klein-Seetharaman J, Bar-Joseph Z, Chen T, Sun F, Troyanskaya OG, Marcotte EM, Xu D, Hughes TR, Roth FP

Genome biology 9 Suppl 1, S2 · 2008

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Global landscape of protein complexes in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Krogan NJ, Cagney G, Yu H, Zhong G, Guo X, Ignatchenko A, Li J, Pu S, Datta N, Tikuisis AP, Punna T, Peregrín-Alvarez JM, Shales M, Zhang X, Davey M, Robinson MD, Paccanaro A, Bray JE, Sheung A, Beattie B, Richards DP, Canadien V, Lalev A, Mena F, Wong P, Starostine A, Canete MM, Vlasblom J, Wu S, Orsi C, Collins SR, Chandran S, Haw R, Rilstone JJ, Gandi K, Thompson NJ, Musso G, St Onge P, Ghanny S, Lam MH, Butland G, Altaf-Ul AM, Kanaya S, Shilatifard A, O'Shea E, Weissman JS, Ingles CJ, Hughes TR, Parkinson J, Gerstein M, Wodak SJ, Emili A, Greenblatt JF

Nature 440, 637-43 · 2006

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The functional landscape of mouse gene expression

Zhang W, Morris QD, Chang R, Shai O, Bakowski MA, Mitsakakis N, Mohammad N, Robinson MD, Zirngibl R, Somogyi E, Laurin N, Eftekharpour E, Sat E, Grigull J, Pan Q, Peng WT, Krogan N, Greenblatt J, Fehlings M, van der Kooy D, Aubin J, Bruneau BG, Rossant J, Blencowe BJ, Frey BJ, Hughes TR

Journal of biology 3, 21 · 2004

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MyMed: A database system for biomedical research on MEDLINE data

Lewis, K., Robinson, M., Hughes, T.R., and Hogue, C.

IBM Systems Journal 43:4. · 2004

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A panoramic view of yeast noncoding RNA processing

Peng WT, Robinson MD, Mnaimneh S, Krogan NJ, Cagney G, Morris Q, Davierwala AP, Grigull J, Yang X, Zhang W, Mitsakakis N, Ryan OW, Datta N, Jojic V, Pal C, Canadien V, Richards D, Beattie B, Wu LF, Altschuler SJ, Roweis S, Frey BJ, Emili A, Greenblatt JF, Hughes TR

Cell 113, 919-33 · 2003

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