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DiNuP: a systematic approach to identify regions of differential nucleosome positioning.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

With the rapid development of high-throughput sequencing technologies, the genome-wide profiling of nucleosome positioning has become increasingly affordable. Many future studies will investigate the dynamic behaviour of nucleosome positioning in cells that have different states or that are exposed to different conditions. However, a robust method to effectively identify the regions of differential nucleosome positioning (RDNPs) has not been previously available.

Results

We describe a novel computational approach, DiNuP, that compares nucleosome profiles generated by high-throughput sequencing under various conditions. DiNuP provides a statistical P-value for each identified RDNP based on the difference of read distributions. DiNuP also empirically estimates the false discovery rate as a cutoff when two samples have different sequencing depths and differentiate reliable RDNPs from the background noise. Evaluation of DiNuP showed it to be both sensitive and specific for the detection of changes in nucleosome location, occupancy and fuzziness. RDNPs that were identified using publicly available datasets revealed that nucleosome positioning dynamics are closely related to the epigenetic regulation of transcription.

Availability and implementation

DiNuP is implemented in Python and is freely available at http://www.tongji.edu.cn/~zhanglab/DiNuP.

Contact

yzhang@tongji.edu.cn

Supplementary information

Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

SUBMITTER: Fu K

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3400967 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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