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Comparison of Hi-C results using in-solution versus in-nucleus ligation

Overview of attention for article published in Genome Biology (Online Edition), August 2015
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Title
Comparison of Hi-C results using in-solution versus in-nucleus ligation
Published in
Genome Biology (Online Edition), August 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13059-015-0753-7
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Authors

Takashi Nagano, Csilla Várnai, Stefan Schoenfelder, Biola-Maria Javierre, Steven W. Wingett, Peter Fraser

Abstract

Chromosome conformation capture and various derivative methods such as 4C, 5C and Hi-C have emerged as standard tools to analyze the three-dimensional organization of the genome in the nucleus. These methods employ ligation of diluted cross-linked chromatin complexes, intended to favour proximity-dependent, intra-complex ligation. During development of single-cell Hi-C, we devised an alternative Hi-C protocol with ligation in preserved nuclei rather than in solution. Here we directly compare Hi-C methods employing in-nucleus ligation with the standard in-solution ligation. We show in-nucleus ligation results in consistently lower levels of inter-chromosomal contacts. Through chromatin mixing experiments we show that a significantly large fraction of inter-chromosomal contacts are the result of spurious ligation events formed during in-solution ligation. In-nucleus ligation significantly reduces this source of experimental noise, and results in improved reproducibility between replicates. We also find that in-nucleus ligation eliminates restriction fragment length bias found with in-solution ligation. These improvements result in greater reproducibility of long-range intra-chromosomal and inter-chromosomal contacts, as well as enhanced detection of structural features such as topologically associated domain boundaries. We conclude that in-nucleus ligation captures chromatin interactions more consistently over a wider range of distances, and significantly reduces both experimental noise and bias. In-nucleus ligation creates higher quality Hi-C libraries while simplifying the experimental procedure. We suggest that the entire range of 3C applications are likely to show similar benefits from in-nucleus ligation.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 1%
United States 2 <1%
Norway 2 <1%
France 1 <1%
Lithuania 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 271 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 81 28%
Researcher 63 22%
Student > Bachelor 26 9%
Student > Master 22 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 15 5%
Other 43 15%
Unknown 36 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 108 38%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 94 33%
Computer Science 15 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 10 3%
Chemistry 5 2%
Other 15 5%
Unknown 39 14%

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 June 2021.
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