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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2019

Selfish: discovery of differential chromatin interactions via a self-similarity measure.

Abbas Roayaei Ardakany, Ferhat Ay, Stefano Lonardi

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 58 citations in OpenAlex.

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Abbas Roayaei ArdakanyDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA.
Ferhat AyDivision of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Stefano LonardiDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA.
University of California, Riverside · USLa Jolla Institute for Immunology · US

Funding

Studying the function of human genetic variation in the light of 3D genome organizationR35GM128938 · NIGMS · LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY · PI Ferhat Ay · 2018 to 2026
$4.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM128938
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationHigh-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 are critical in evaluating the reproducibility of replicate experiments and for 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. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: https://github.com/ucrbioinfo/Selfish.

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ChromatinGenomeChromosome MappingGenomicsReproducibility of ResultsChromatin

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