Jointly-hic: joint decomposition of contact frequency maps captures salient features of genome architecture across tissues and development
Reimonn, Thomas ; Yilmaz, Vedat O ; Tran, Hoang ; Ng, Garrett ; Liu, Derek ; Abdennur, Nezar
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Chromosome conformation capture methods, such as Hi-C, have been used to profile chromosome organization from a wide variety of biosamples and conditions; however, existing methods for analyzing such datasets have disadvantages for large-scale integrative studies of long-range interactions. To address this shortcoming, we introduce an analytical framework, jointly-hic, that computes harmonized projections across arbitrarily many contact frequency matrices, suitable for integrative studies of compartmentalization and long-range interactions. Our approach produces robust and directly comparable first and higher-order principal component scores that collectively capture biologically meaningful information beyond traditional A/B compartment scores.
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Reimonn T, Yilmaz VO, Tran H, Ng G, Liu D, Abdennur N. Jointly-hic: joint decomposition of contact frequency maps captures salient features of genome architecture across tissues and development. Genome Biol. 2026 May 2. doi: 10.1186/s13059-026-04067-1. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42069685.