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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.WABI.2017.19
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-76375
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2017/7637/
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Polishko, Anton ; Hasan, Md. Abid ; Pan, Weihua ; Bunnik, Evelien M. ; Le Roch, Karine ; Lonardi, Stefano

ThIEF: Finding Genome-wide Trajectories of Epigenetics Marks

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Abstract

We address the problem of comparing multiple genome-wide maps representing nucleosome positions or specific histone marks. These maps can originate from the comparative analysis of ChIP-Seq/MNase-Seq/FAIRE-Seq data for different cell types/tissues or multiple time points. The input to the problem is a set of maps, each of which is a list of genomics locations for nucleosomes or histone marks. The output is an alignment of nucleosomes/histone marks across time points (that we call trajectories), allowing small movements and gaps in some of the maps. We present a tool called ThIEF (TrackIng of Epigenetic Features) that can efficiently compute these trajectories. ThIEF comes into two "flavors": ThIEF:Iterative finds the trajectories progressively using bipartite matching, while ThIEF:LP solves a k-partite matching problem on a hyper graph using linear programming. ThIEF:LP is guaranteed to find the optimal solution, but it is slower than ThIEF:Iterative. We demonstrate the utility of ThIEF by providing an example of applications on the analysis of temporal nucleosome maps for the human malaria parasite. As a surprisingly remarkable result, we show that the output of ThIEF can be used to produce a supervised classifier that can accurately predict the position of stable nucleosomes (i.e., nucleosomes present in all time points) and unstable nucleosomes (i.e., present in at most half of the time points) from the primary DNA sequence. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first result on the prediction of the dynamics of nucleosomes solely based on their DNA binding preference. Software is available at https://github.com/ucrbioinfo/ThIEF.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{polishko_et_al:LIPIcs:2017:7637,
  author =	{Anton Polishko and Md. Abid Hasan and Weihua Pan and Evelien M. Bunnik and Karine Le Roch and Stefano Lonardi},
  title =	{{ThIEF: Finding Genome-wide Trajectories of Epigenetics Marks}},
  booktitle =	{17th International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI 2017)},
  pages =	{19:1--19:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-050-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{88},
  editor =	{Russell Schwartz and Knut Reinert},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2017/7637},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-76375},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.WABI.2017.19},
  annote =	{Keywords: Nucleosomes, Histone Marks, Histone Tail Modifications, Epigenetics, Genomics}
}

Keywords: Nucleosomes, Histone Marks, Histone Tail Modifications, Epigenetics, Genomics
Collection: 17th International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI 2017)
Issue Date: 2017
Date of publication: 11.08.2017

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