Comparison of normalization methods for Hi-C data

Hi-C has been predominately used to study the genome-wide interactions of genomes. In Hi-C experiments, it is believed that biases originating from different systematic deviations lead to extraneous variability among raw samples, and affect the reliability of downstream interpretations. As an import...

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Main Authors: Hongqiang Lyu, Erhu Liu, Zhifang Wu
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Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2020-02-01
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Online Access:https://www.future-science.com/doi/10.2144/btn-2019-0105
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description Hi-C has been predominately used to study the genome-wide interactions of genomes. In Hi-C experiments, it is believed that biases originating from different systematic deviations lead to extraneous variability among raw samples, and affect the reliability of downstream interpretations. As an important pipeline in Hi-C analysis, normalization seeks to remove the unwanted systematic biases; thus, a comparison between Hi-C normalization methods benefits their choice and the downstream analysis. In this article, a comprehensive comparison is proposed to investigate six Hi-C normalization methods in terms of multiple considerations. In light of comparison results, it has been shown that a cross-sample approach significantly outperforms individual sample methods in most considerations. The differences between these methods are analyzed, some practical recommendations are given, and the results are summarized in a table to facilitate the choice of the six normalization methods. The source code for the implementation of these methods is available at https://github.com/lhqxinghun/bioinformatics/tree/master/Hi-C/NormCompare
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spelling doaj-art-2e3cbc65ac07428ebaa6849c1735f53b2025-08-20T02:25:51ZengTaylor & Francis GroupBioTechniques0736-62051940-98182020-02-01682566410.2144/btn-2019-0105Comparison of normalization methods for Hi-C dataHongqiang Lyu0Erhu Liu1Zhifang Wu21School of Electronic & Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China1School of Electronic & Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China1School of Electronic & Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, ChinaHi-C has been predominately used to study the genome-wide interactions of genomes. In Hi-C experiments, it is believed that biases originating from different systematic deviations lead to extraneous variability among raw samples, and affect the reliability of downstream interpretations. As an important pipeline in Hi-C analysis, normalization seeks to remove the unwanted systematic biases; thus, a comparison between Hi-C normalization methods benefits their choice and the downstream analysis. In this article, a comprehensive comparison is proposed to investigate six Hi-C normalization methods in terms of multiple considerations. In light of comparison results, it has been shown that a cross-sample approach significantly outperforms individual sample methods in most considerations. The differences between these methods are analyzed, some practical recommendations are given, and the results are summarized in a table to facilitate the choice of the six normalization methods. The source code for the implementation of these methods is available at https://github.com/lhqxinghun/bioinformatics/tree/master/Hi-C/NormComparehttps://www.future-science.com/doi/10.2144/btn-2019-0105comprehensive comparisonHi-C datanormalization methods
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title Comparison of normalization methods for Hi-C data
title_full Comparison of normalization methods for Hi-C data
title_fullStr Comparison of normalization methods for Hi-C data
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title_short Comparison of normalization methods for Hi-C data
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Hi-C data
normalization methods
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