SuperTAD : robust detection of hierarchical topologically associated domains with optimized structural information

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Original languageEnglish
Article number45
Journal / PublicationGenome Biology
Volume22
Online published25 Jan 2021
Publication statusPublished - 2021

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Abstract

Topologically associating domains (TADs) are the organizational units of chromosome structures. TADs can contain TADs, thus forming a hierarchy. TAD hierarchies can be inferred from Hi-C data through coding trees. However, the current method for computing coding trees is not optimal. In this paper, we propose optimal algorithms for this computation. In comparison with seven state-of-art methods using two public datasets, from GM12878 and IMR90 cells, SuperTAD shows a significant enrichment of structural proteins around detected boundaries and histone modifications within TADs and displays a high consistency between various resolutions of identical Hi-C matrices.

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  • Dynamic programming, Hi-C, Structure information theory, Topologically associating domain

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