Computational methods for analysing multiscale 3D genome organization

Y Zhang, L Boninsegna, M Yang, T Misteli… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Recent progress in whole-genome mapping and imaging technologies has enabled the
characterization of the spatial organization and folding of the genome in the nucleus. In …

The 3D genome structure of single cells

T Zhou, R Zhang, J Ma - Annual review of biomedical data …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The spatial organization of the genome in the cell nucleus is pivotal to cell function.
However, how the 3D genome organization and its dynamics influence cellular phenotypes …

A fast, scalable and versatile tool for analysis of single-cell omics data

K Zhang, NR Zemke, EJ Armand, B Ren - Nature methods, 2024 - nature.com
Single-cell omics technologies have revolutionized the study of gene regulation in complex
tissues. A major computational challenge in analyzing these datasets is to project the large …

Multiscale and integrative single-cell Hi-C analysis with Higashi

R Zhang, T Zhou, J Ma - Nature biotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Single-cell Hi-C (scHi-C) can identify cell-to-cell variability of three-dimensional
(3D) chromatin organization, but the sparseness of measured interactions poses an analysis …

dcHiC detects differential compartments across multiple Hi-C datasets

A Chakraborty, JG Wang, F Ay - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
The compartmental organization of mammalian genomes and its changes play important
roles in distinct biological processes. Here, we introduce dcHiC, which utilizes a multivariate …

Loop-extrusion and polymer phase-separation can co-exist at the single-molecule level to shape chromatin folding

M Conte, E Irani, AM Chiariello, A Abraham… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Loop-extrusion and phase-separation have been proposed as mechanisms that shape
chromosome spatial organization. It is unclear, however, how they perform relative to each …

High-content single-cell combinatorial indexing

RM Mulqueen, D Pokholok, BL O'Connell… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Single-cell combinatorial indexing (sci) with transposase-based library construction
increases the throughput of single-cell genomics assays but produces sparse coverage in …

Single-cell Hi-C data analysis: safety in numbers

AA Galitsyna, MS Gelfand - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Over the past decade, genome-wide assays for chromatin interactions in single cells have
enabled the study of individual nuclei at unprecedented resolution and throughput. Current …

Ultrafast and interpretable single-cell 3D genome analysis with Fast-Higashi

R Zhang, T Zhou, J Ma - Cell systems, 2022 - cell.com
Summary Single-cell Hi-C (scHi-C) technologies can probe three-dimensional (3D) genome
structures in individual cells. However, existing scHi-C analysis methods are hindered by the …

Large-scale DNA demethylation occurs in proliferating ovarian granulosa cells during mouse follicular development

T Kawai, JAS Richards, M Shimada - Communications Biology, 2021 - nature.com
During ovarian follicular development, granulosa cells proliferate and progressively
differentiate to support oocyte maturation and ovulation. To determine the underlying links …