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LOGIQA: a database dedicated to long-range genome interactions quality assessment.

ABSTRACT: Proximity ligation-mediated methods are essential to study the impact of three-dimensional chromatin organization on gene programming. Albeit significant progress has been made in the development of computational tools that assess long-range chromatin interactions, next to nothing is known about the quality of the generated datasets.We have developed LOGIQA ( www.ngs-qc.org/logiqa ), a database hosting quality scores for long-range genome interaction assays, accessible through a user-friendly web-based environment.Currently, LOGIQA harbors QC scores for >900 datasets, which provides a global view of their relative quality and reveals the impact of genome size, coverage and other technical aspects. LOGIQA provides a user-friendly dataset query panel and a genome viewer to assess local genome-interaction maps at different resolution and quality-assessment conditions.LOGIQA is the first database hosting quality scores dedicated to long-range chromatin interaction assays, which in addition provides a platform for visualizing genome interactions made available by the scientific community.

SUBMITTER: Mendoza-Parra MA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4868109 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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LOGIQA: a database dedicated to long-range genome interactions quality assessment.

Mendoza-Parra Marco-Antonio MA Blum Matthias M Malysheva Valeriya V Cholley Pierre-Etienne PE Gronemeyer Hinrich H

BMC genomics 20160516

<h4>Background</h4>Proximity ligation-mediated methods are essential to study the impact of three-dimensional chromatin organization on gene programming. Albeit significant progress has been made in the development of computational tools that assess long-range chromatin interactions, next to nothing is known about the quality of the generated datasets.<h4>Method</h4>We have developed LOGIQA ( www.ngs-qc.org/logiqa ), a database hosting quality scores for long-range genome interaction assays, acc ...[more]

PMID: 27185059

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LOGIQA: a database dedicated to long-range genome interactions quality assessment.

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