PyPeakRankR: Reproducible Peak-Level Feature Extraction for Regulatory Element Ranking

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Original abstract

High-throughput chromatin accessibility assays such as ATAC-seq generate thousands of candidate regulatory elements (peaks), yet no standardized tool exists for assembling the diverse quantitative features needed to prioritize peaks for functional validation. Here we present PyPeakRankR, an open-source Python package that extracts peak-level features, namely BigWig signal summaries, GC content, PhyloP conservation scores, distribution moments (kurtosis, skewness, bimodality), and cell-type specificity rankings, into a single reproducible peak by feature matrix stored as a tab-separated values (TSV) file. PyPeakRankR separates deterministic feature extraction from downstream ranking, enabling transparent benchmarking of prioritization strategies on the same upstream data. The package provides both a command-line interface and a matching Python API, supports cross-assembly scoring via liftOver, and runs in minutes on thousands of peaks. PyPeakRankR was validated in the Brain Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN) community challenge, where its predecessor PeakRankR ranked among the top 3 of 16 methods for cell-type specific enhancer prediction. In a recent basal ganglia study, PyPeakRankR was used within the Cross-species Enhancer Ranking Pipeline (CERP) to identify enhancer-AAV tools achieving greater than 70% on-target specificity across cell types. PyPeakRankR is freely available under the MIT license at https://github.com/AllenInstitute/PeakRankR/tree/python-package.

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