Measuring the impact of chromatin context on transcription factor binding affinities

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This is a summary of: Neikes, H. K. et al. Quantification of absolute transcription factor binding affinities in the native chromatin context using BANC-seq. Nat. Biotechnol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-023-01715-w (2023).