Optimization and quality control of genome-wide Hi-C library preparation
Received date: 2017-04-26
Revised date: 2017-06-15
Online published: 2017-10-21
Supported by
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31370762,81372218)
Highest-throughput chromosome conformation capture (Hi-C) is one of the key assays for genome- wide chromatin interaction studies. It is a time-consuming process that involves many steps and many different kinds of reagents, consumables, and equipments. At present, the reproducibility is unsatisfactory. By optimizing the key steps of the Hi-C experiment, such as crosslinking, pretreatment of digestion, inactivation of restriction enzyme, and in situ ligation etc., we established a robust Hi-C procedure and prepared two biological replicates of Hi-C libraries from the GM12878 cells. After preliminary quality control by Sanger sequencing, the two replicates were high-throughput sequenced. The bioinformatics analysis of the raw sequencing data revealed the mapping-ability and pair-mate rate of the raw data were around 90% and 72%, respectively. Additionally, after removal of self-circular ligations and dangling-end products, more than 96% of the valid pairs were reached. Genome-wide interactome profiling shows clear topological associated domains (TADs), which is consistent with previous reports. Further correlation analysis showed that the two biological replicates strongly correlate with each other in terms of both bin coverage and all bin pairs. All these results indicated that the optimized Hi-C procedure is robust and stable, which will be very helpful for the wide applications of the Hi-C assay.
Key words: Hi-C; chromatin interaction; high-throughput sequencing
Xiangyuan Zhang,Chao He,Bingyu Ye,Dejian Xie,Minglei Shi,Yan Zhang,Wenlong Shen,Ping Li,Zhihu Zhao . Optimization and quality control of genome-wide Hi-C library preparation[J]. Hereditas(Beijing), 2017 , 39(9) : 847 -855 . DOI: 10.16288/j.yczz.17-152
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