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Chromatin conformation capture technologies such as Hi-C have revealed that the genome is organized in a hierarchy of structures spanning multiple scales observed at different resolutions. Current algorithms often focus on specific…
To better understand DNA's 3D folding in cell nuclei, researchers developed chromosome capture methods such as Hi-C that measure the contact frequencies between all DNA segment pairs across the genome. As Hi-C data sets often are massive,…
While bacterial chromosomes were long thought to be amorphous, recent experiments reveal pronounced organizational features. However, the extent of bacterial chromosome organization remains unclear. Here, we develop a fully data-driven…
To understand the nature of a cell, one needs to understand the structure of its genome. For this purpose, experimental techniques such as Hi-C detecting chromosomal contacts are used to probe the three-dimensional genomic structure. These…
The three dimensional structure of DNA in the nucleus (chromatin) plays an important role in many cellular processes. Recent experimental advances have led to high-throughput methods of capturing information about chromatin conformation on…
Hi-C sequencing is widely used for analyzing chromosomal interactions. In this study, we propose "superimposed Hi-C" which features paired EcoP15I sites in a linker to facilitate sticky-end ligation with target DNAs. Superimposed Hi-C…
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Combining genome-wide structural models with phenomenological data is at the forefront of efforts to understand the organizational principles regulating the human genome. Here, we use chromosome-chromosome contact data as knowledge-based…
High-throughput chromatin conformation capture (Hi-C) data provide insights into the 3D structure of chromosomes, with normalization being a crucial pre-processing step. A common technique for normalization is matrix balancing, which…
Chromosome capture techniques like Hi-C have expanded our understanding of mammalian genome 3D architecture and how it influences gene activity. To analyze Hi-C data sets, researchers increasingly treat them as DNA-contact networks and use…
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The probability of two loci, separated by a certain genome length, being in contact can be inferred using the Chromosome Conformation Capture (3C) method and related Hi-C experiments. How to go from the contact map, a matrix listing the…
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High-Content Digital Microscopy enhances user comfort, data storage and analysis throughput, paving the way to new researches and medical diagnostics. A digital microscopy platform aims at capturing an image of a cover slip, at storing…
Chromosome conformation capture experiments such as Hi-C are used to map the three-dimensional spatial organization of genomes. One specific feature of the 3D organization is known as topologically associating domains (TADs), which are…
Over the past decades, statisticians and machine-learning researchers have developed literally thousands of new tools for the reduction of high-dimensional data in order to identify the variables most responsible for a particular trait.…
Several experiments show that the three dimensional (3D) organization of chromosomes affects genetic processes such as transcription and gene regulation. To better understand this connection, researchers developed the Hi-C method that is…
Researchers developed chromosome capture methods such as Hi-C to better understand DNA's 3D folding in nuclei. The Hi-C method captures contact frequencies between DNA segment pairs across the genome. When analyzing Hi-C data sets, it is…