HUGIn: Hi-C Unifying Genomic Interrogator.

Martin, Joshua S; Xu, Zheng; Reiner, Alex P; Mohlke, Karen L; Sullivan, Patrick; Ren, Bing; Hu, Ming; Li, Yun · Bioinformatics · 2017

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

High throughput chromatin conformation capture (3C) technologies, such as Hi-C and ChIA-PET, have the potential to elucidate the functional roles of non-coding variants. However, most of published genome-wide unbiased chromatin organization studies have used cultured cell lines, limiting their generalizability. We developed a web browser, HUGIn, to visualize Hi-C data generated from 21 human primary tissues and cell lines. HUGIn enables assessment of chromatin contacts both constitutive across and specific to tissue(s) and/or cell line(s) at any genomic loci, including GWAS SNPs, eQTLs and cis-regulatory elements, facilitating the understanding of both GWAS and eQTL results and functional genomics data. HUGIn is available at http://yunliweb.its.unc.edu/HUGIn. yunli@med.unc.edu or hum@ccf.org. Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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