Advantages of using graph databases to explore chromatin conformation capture experiments

Abstract Background High-throughput sequencing Chromosome Conformation Capture (Hi-C) allows the study of DNA interactions and 3D chromosome folding at the genome-wide scale. Usually, these data are represented as matrices describing the binary contacts among the different chromosome regions. On the...

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Main Authors: Daniele D’Agostino, Pietro Liò, Marco Aldinucci, Ivan Merelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-04-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-020-03937-0