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ArticleBMC genomics2016

Q-nexus: a comprehensive and efficient analysis pipeline designed for ChIP-nexus.

Peter Hansen, Jochen Hecht, Jonas Ibn-Salem, Benjamin S Menkuec, Sebastian Roskosch, Matthias Truss, Peter N Robinson

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Article in BMC genomics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Peter HansenInstitute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, Berlin, 13353, Germany.
Jochen HechtCentre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Aiguader 88, Barcelona, 08003, Spain.
Jonas Ibn-SalemFaculty of Biology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Ackermannweg 4, Mainz, 55128, Germany.
Benjamin S MenkuecInstitute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, Berlin, 13353, Germany.
Sebastian RoskoschInstitute for Bioinformatics, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, Berlin, 14195, Germany.
Matthias TrussLabor für Pädiatrische Molekularbiologie, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, Berlin, 13353, Germany.
Peter N RobinsonInstitute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, Berlin, 13353, Germany. peter.robinson@jax.org.

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Abstract

backgroundChIP-nexus, an extension of the ChIP-exo protocol, can be used to map the borders of protein-bound DNA sequences at nucleotide resolution, requires less input DNA and enables selective PCR duplicate removal using random barcodes. However, the use of random barcodes requires additional preprocessing of the mapping data, which complicates the computational analysis. To date, only a very limited number of software packages are available for the analysis of ChIP-exo data, which have not yet been systematically tested and compared on ChIP-nexus data.

resultsHere, we present a comprehensive software package for ChIP-nexus data that exploits the random barcodes for selective removal of PCR duplicates and for quality control. Furthermore, we developed bespoke methods to estimate the width of the protected region resulting from protein-DNA binding and to infer binding positions from ChIP-nexus data. Finally, we applied our peak calling method as well as the two other methods MACE and MACS2 to the available ChIP-nexus data.

conclusionsThe Q-nexus software is efficient and easy to use. Novel statistics about duplication rates in consideration of random barcodes are calculated. Our method for the estimation of the width of the protected region yields unbiased signatures that are highly reproducible for biological replicates and at the same time very specific for the respective factors analyzed. As judged by the irreproducible discovery rate (IDR), our peak calling algorithm shows a substantially better reproducibility. An implementation of Q-nexus is available at http://charite.github.io/Q/ .

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Chromatin ImmunoprecipitationHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingSoftwareAlgorithmsBinding SitesComputational BiologyDNA-Binding ProteinsNucleotide MotifsProtein BindingReproducibility of ResultsTranscription FactorsDNA-Binding ProteinsTranscription FactorsAlgorithmBioinformaticsChIP-exoChIP-nexusChromatin immunoprecipitationDuplication ratesLibrary complexity

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