The VISTA Enhancer Browser is a central resource for human and mouse transcriptional enhancers that have been validated in vivo in transgenic mouse embryos.


Enter a Vista ID (e.g. hs72.0 or hs2766), a flanking gene name (e.g. IRF8) or element coordinates (e.g. chr16:86396481-86397120).

Enhancer Discovery For

This program is located at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. See the Manual for additional details on this work or visit the Browse Page to view data. We invite external groups to submit requests for candidate enhancers to be tested.

If you use VISTA Enhancer Browser in your work please cite the following publications:

Kosicki, M., Baltoumas, F.A., Kelman, G., Boverhof, J., Ong, Y., Cook, L.E., Dickel, D.E., Pavlopoulos, G.A., Pennacchio, L.A., Visel, A. (2024).
VISTA Enhancer Browser: An updated database of tissue-specific developmental enhancers.
Nucleic Acids Res. gkae940, PubMed: 39470740

Visel A, Minovitsky S, Dubchak I, Pennacchio LA (2007).
VISTA Enhancer Browser - a database of tissue-specific human enhancers.
Nucleic Acids Res. 35:D88-92, PubMed: 17130149


Note: The legacy version of VISTA Enhancer Browser, which was discontinued in July 2024, can be found here.


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