Diversification and specialization of high-throughput technologies demand assay-specific treatment of data for reliable interpretation. A new study shows that data generated using the Hi-C approach contain hidden features of interchromosomal DNA interactions, which are revealed through analysis with an integrated probabilistic model that corrects for multiple sources of bias in the data.
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Sung, MH., Hager, G. More to Hi-C than meets the eye. Nat Genet 43, 1047–1048 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.984
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