Going forward, the further use of artificial intelligence for analyzing DNA sequence patterns should increase researchers' ability to understand as well as to control gene activation in human cells.

That is in part because of the ongoing challenge of understanding the DNA switches, called cis-regulatory elements (CREs), that control the expression and repression of genes.

The researchers from the University of California San Diego used artificial intelligence to identify a DNA activation code, which was previously known to be "an enigma." ...