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ArticleNature methods2025

FISHnet: detecting chromatin domains in single-cell sequential Oligopaints imaging data.

Rohan Patel, Kenneth Pham, Harshini Chandrashekar, Jennifer E Phillips-Cremins

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Article in Nature methods, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Chromosome painting in plants: history and future perspectives.Chromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Rohan PatelDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Kenneth PhamDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3352-9870
Harshini ChandrashekarDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Jennifer E Phillips-CreminsDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. jcremins@seas.upenn.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4702-0450

Funding

From 3D genomes to neural connectomes: Higher-order chromatin mechanisms encoding long-term memoryDP1MH129957 · NIMH · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI PHILLIPS-CREMINS, JENNIFER ELIZABETH · 2021 to 2025
$5.7M
Engineering and Imaging 3D genome structure-function dynamics across time scalesU01DK127405 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI BLOBEL, GERD A, PHILLIPS-CREMINS, JENNIFER ELIZABETH · 2020 to 2024
$5.7M
Single-cell dissection of chromatin architecture mechanisms connecting pathologic instability and transcriptional silencingU01DA052715 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI JAIN, RAJAN, JOYCE, ERIC F. · 2020 to 2024
$3.1M
Connecting 3D genome misfolding to transcriptional silencing in fragile X syndromeR01MH120269 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI PHILLIPS-CREMINS, JENNIFER ELIZABETH · 2019 to 2024
$3.1M
Elucidating the 3-D epigenetic determinants of activity-dependent gene expression in mammalian neuronsR01NS114226 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI PHILLIPS-CREMINS, JENNIFER ELIZABETH, SHEPHERD, JASON D · 2020 to 2024
$2.3M
Connecting 3D genome misfolding to transcriptional silencing in fragile X syndromeR37MH120269 · NIMH · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Jennifer Elizabeth Phillips-Cremins · 2025 to 2026
$1.0M
Elucidating the spatially coordinated mechanisms of transcriptional silencing in fragile X syndromeF30HD114405 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Kenneth Pham · 2024 to 2026
$147k
Elucidating the interplay between cohesin-mediated loop extrusion and heterochromatin in single cells.F31HG014082 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Rohan Dipak Patel · 2025 to 2026
$99k
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sequential Oligopaints DNA FISH is an imaging technique that measures higher-order genome folding at single-allele resolution via multiplexed, probe-based tracing. Currently there is a paucity of algorithms to identify 3D genome features in sequential Oligopaints data. Here, we present FISHnet, a graph theory method based on optimization of network modularity to detect chromatin domains in pairwise distance matrices. FISHnet sensitively and specifically identifies domains and boundaries in both simulated and real single-allele imaging data and provides statistical tests for the identification of cell-type-specific domains-like folding patterns. Application of FISHnet across multiple published Oligopaints datasets confirms that nested domains consistent with TADs and subTADs are not an emergent property of ensemble Hi-C data but also observable on single alleles. We make FISHnet code freely available to the scientific community, thus enabling future studies aiming to elucidate the role of single-allele folding variation on genome function.

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ChromatinIn Situ Hybridization, FluorescenceSingle-Cell AnalysisAlgorithmsAllelesAnimalsHumansChromatin

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PMCPMC12165856

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