Two independent modes of chromatin organization revealed by cohesin removal

W Schwarzer, N Abdennur, A Goloborodko… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Imaging and chromosome conformation capture studies have revealed several layers of
chromosome organization, including segregation into megabase-sized active and inactive …

The 3D Genome Browser: a web-based browser for visualizing 3D genome organization and long-range chromatin interactions

Y Wang, F Song, B Zhang, L Zhang, J Xu, D Kuang… - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
Here, we introduce the 3D Genome Browser, http://3dgenome. org, which allows users to
conveniently explore both their own and over 300 publicly available chromatin interaction …

[HTML][HTML] Juicebox. js provides a cloud-based visualization system for Hi-C data

JT Robinson, D Turner, NC Durand, H Thorvaldsdóttir… - Cell systems, 2018 - cell.com
Contact map** experiments such as Hi-C explore how genomes fold in 3D. Here, we
introduce Juicebox. js, a cloud-based web application for exploring the resulting datasets …

Emerging evidence of chromosome folding by loop extrusion

G Fudenberg, N Abdennur, M Imakaev… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2017 - symposium.cshlp.org
Chromosome organization poses a remarkable physical problem with many biological
consequences: How can molecular interactions between proteins at the nanometer scale …

[HTML][HTML] Computational methods for assessing chromatin hierarchy

P Chang, M Gohain, MR Yen, PY Chen - Computational and structural …, 2018 - Elsevier
The hierarchical organization of chromatin is known to associate with diverse cellular
functions; however, the precise mechanisms and the 3D structure remain to be determined …

Interpreting chromosomal rearrangements in the context of 3-dimentional genome organization: a practical guide for medical genetics

VS Fishman, PA Salnikov, NR Battulin - Biochemistry (Moscow), 2018 - Springer
In this exciting era of “next-gen cytogenetics”, the use of novel molecular methods such as
comparative genome hybridization and whole genome and whole exome sequencing …

HiPiler: visual exploration of large genome interaction matrices with interactive small multiples

F Lekschas, B Bach, P Kerpedjiev… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an interactive visualization interface-HiPiler-for the exploration and
visualization of regions-of-interest in large genome interaction matrices. Genome interaction …

Practical analysis of Hi-C data: generating A/B compartment profiles

H Miura, R Poonperm, S Takahashi… - … Inactivation: Methods and …, 2018 - Springer
Recent advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) and chromosome conformation
capture (3C) analysis have led to the development of Hi-C, a genome-wide version of the 3C …

Generative modeling of multi-map** reads with mHi-C advances analysis of Hi-C studies

Y Zheng, F Ay, S Keles - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Current Hi-C analysis approaches are unable to account for reads that align to multiple
locations, and hence underestimate biological signal from repetitive regions of genomes …

Heterochromatin drives organization of conventional and inverted nuclei

M Falk, Y Feodorova, N Naumova, M Imakaev… - BioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
The mammalian cell nucleus displays a remarkable spatial segregation of active
euchromatic from inactive heterochromatic genomic regions. In conventional nuclei …