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A foundation model to help understand the regulatory implications of 3D genome organization
We developed a foundation model for 3D genome organization from Hi-C-derived chromatin structure. HiCFoundation supports integrative analysis linking genome architecture to downstream regulatory function. Through large-scale self-supervised pretraining on Hi-C data, followed by fine-tuning on downstream tasks, it provides a unified, efficient, generalizable and interpretable paradigm for 3D genome, single-cell and multiomics analysis across species.