# First person – Fatima Batool

## TL;DR

This paper is part of a series highlighting researchers, focusing on Fatima Batool's work on transcription factors in forebrain-specific enhancers.

## Contribution

The study introduces a framework for understanding cis-regulatory grammar to identify tissue-specific enhancers.

## Key findings

- The research decodes the combinatorial binding syntax of transcription factors in forebrain-specific enhancers.
- It aims to advance understanding of enhancer function and tissue-specific gene regulation.

## Abstract

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Fatima Batool is first author on ‘
The combinatorial binding syntax of transcription factors in forebrain-specific enhancers’, published in BiO. Fatima is a PhD student in the lab of Professor Dr Amir Ali Abbasi at the National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, decoding cis-regulatory grammar to establish a framework for discovering tissue-specific enhancers and advancing our understanding of enhancer function.