Author:
Ardakany Abbas Roayaei,Ay Ferhat,Lonardi Stefano
Abstract
AbstractMotivationHigh-throughput conformation capture experiments such as Hi-C provide genome-wide maps of chromatin interactions, enabling life scientists to investigate the role of the three-dimensional structure of genomes in gene regulation and other essential cellular functions. A fundamental problem in the analysis of Hi-C data is how to compare two contact maps derived from Hi-C experiments. Detecting similarities and differences between contact maps is critical in evaluating the reproducibility of replicate experiments and identifying differential genomic regions with biological significance. Due to the complexity of chromatin conformations and the presence of technology-driven and sequence-specific biases, the comparative analysis of Hi-C data is analytically and computationally challenging.ResultsWe present a novel method called Selfish for the comparative analysis of Hi-C data that takes advantage of the structural self-similarity in contact maps. We define a novel self-similarity measure to design algorithms for (i) measuring reproducibility for Hi-C replicate experiments and (ii) finding differential chromatin interactions between two contact maps. Extensive experimental results on simulated and real data show that Selfish is more accurate and robust than state-of-the-art methods.Availabilityhttps://github.com/ucrbioinfo/SelfishContactaroay001@ucr.edu and stelo@cs.ucr.edu
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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