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ArticleBMC genomics2019

normGAM: an R package to remove systematic biases in genome architecture mapping data.

Tong Liu, Zheng Wang

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Tong LiuDepartment of Computer Science, University of Miami, 1365 Memorial Drive, P.O. Box 248154, Coral Gables, FL, 33124, USA.
Zheng WangDepartment of Computer Science, University of Miami, 1365 Memorial Drive, P.O. Box 248154, Coral Gables, FL, 33124, USA. zheng.wang@miami.edu.

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Measure and Classify the Structure and Function of Genome Topological DomainsR15GM120650 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI · PI SUNG, ANDREW H. · 2016 to 2016
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NIGMS NIH HHS R15 GM120650
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe genome architecture mapping (GAM) technique can capture genome-wide chromatin interactions. However, besides the known systematic biases in the raw GAM data, we have found a new type of systematic bias. It is necessary to develop and evaluate effective normalization methods to remove all systematic biases in the raw GAM data.

resultsWe have detected a new type of systematic bias, the fragment length bias, in the genome architecture mapping (GAM) data, which is significantly different from the bias of window detection frequency previously mentioned in the paper introducing the GAM method but is similar to the bias of distances between restriction sites existing in raw Hi-C data. We have found that the normalization method (a normalized variant of the linkage disequilibrium) used in the GAM paper is not able to effectively eliminate the new fragment length bias at 1 Mb resolution (slightly better at 30 kb resolution). We have developed an R package named normGAM for eliminating the new fragment length bias together with the other three biases existing in raw GAM data, which are the biases related to window detection frequency, mappability, and GC content. Five normalization methods have been implemented and included in the R package including Knight-Ruiz 2-norm (KR2, newly designed by us), normalized linkage disequilibrium (NLD), vanilla coverage (VC), sequential component normalization (SCN), and iterative correction and eigenvector decomposition (ICE).

conclusionsBased on our evaluations, the five normalization methods can eliminate the four biases existing in raw GAM data, with VC and KR2 performing better than the others. We have observed that the KR2-normalized GAM data have a higher correlation with the KR-normalized Hi-C data on the same cell samples indicating that the KR-related methods are better than the others for keeping the consistency between the GAM and Hi-C experiments. Compared with the raw GAM data, the normalized GAM data are more consistent with the normalized distances from the fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) experiments. The source code of normGAM can be freely downloaded from http://dna.cs.miami.edu/normGAM/.

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SoftwareBiasChromatinChromosome MappingContig MappingGenomeReproducibility of ResultsChromatin3D genome structureGAMGenome architecture mappingHi-CNormalizationSystematic biases

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