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Continuous improvements to high-throughput conformation capture (Hi-C) are revealing richerinformation about the spatial organization of the chromatin and its role in cellular functions.Several studies have confirmed the existence of structural features of the genome 3D organiza-tion that are stable across cell types and conserved across species, calledtopological associatingdomains(TADs). The detection of TADs has become a critical step in the analysis of Hi-C data,e.g., to identify enhancer-promoter associations. Here we presentEast, a novel TAD identifi-cation algorithm based on fast 2D convolution of Haar-like features, that is as accurate as thestate-of-the-art method based on the directionality index, but 75-80x faster.Eastis availablein the public domain at https://github.com/ucrbioinfo/EAST.
@InProceedings{roayaeiardakany_et_al:LIPIcs.WABI.2017.22,
author = {Roayaei Ardakany, Abbas and Lonardi, Stefano},
title = {{Efficient and Accurate Detection of Topologically Associating Domains from Contact Maps}},
booktitle = {17th International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI 2017)},
pages = {22:1--22:11},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-050-7},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2017},
volume = {88},
editor = {Schwartz, Russell and Reinert, Knut},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.WABI.2017.22},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-76446},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.WABI.2017.22},
annote = {Keywords: Chromatin, TADs, 3D genome, Hi-C, contact maps}
}