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HiCPotts

This is the development version of HiCPotts; for the stable release version, see HiCPotts.

Hierarchical Modeling to Identify and Correct Genomic Biases in Hi-C


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

Bayesian analysis of Hi-C interaction counts using a three-state hierarchical mixture model with Potts spatial dependence and genomic distance, GC-content, transposable-element and accessibility covariates. The three biological components are low-mean noise, true signal with a distinct covariate-response pattern, and elevated false signal whose covariate-response slopes resemble the noise component. Robust regression fitting uses a multi-chain soft empirical-Bayes pilot to construct one shared prior that is frozen for all production chains, dispersion uses component-group-specific Gamma priors, zero inflation uses a conjugate augmented Gibbs step, and spatial coupling uses retained-state approximate Bayesian computation. The official classification pools post-burn-in latent-state frequencies from the fitted model; parameter-plus-Potts allocation is retained as a separate sensitivity analysis. Parameter summaries include posterior intervals, effective sample sizes and split-chain R-hat, with configurable diagnostic criteria for reporting. Cached native likelihood calculations, direct checkerboard allocation, reproducible cross-platform parallel chains, fit provenance and stage timings improve computational efficiency and auditability without changing the model target or official classification rule.

Author: Itunu. Godwin Osuntoki [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0009-0005-1037-9346 , Nicolae. Radu Zabet [aut]

Maintainer: Itunu. Godwin Osuntoki <hitunes4 at gmail.com>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("HiCPotts")):
Seminal Bioconductor project articles:

Huber W, Carey VJ, Gentleman R, Anders S, Carlson M, Carvalho BS, Bravo HC, Davis S, Gatto L, Girke T, Gottardo R, Hahne F, Hansen KD, Irizarry RA, Lawrence M, Love MI, MacDonald J, Obenchain V, Oleś AK, Pagès H, Reyes A, Shannon P, Smyth GK, Tenenbaum D, Waldron L, Morgan M (2015). "Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor." Nature Methods, 12(2), 115–121. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3252.

Gentleman RC, Carey VJ, Bates DM, Bolstad B, Dettling M, Dudoit S, Ellis B, Gautier L, Ge Y, Gentry J, Hornik K, Hothorn T, Huber W, Iacus S, Irizarry R, Leisch F, Li C, Maechler M, Rossini AJ, Sawitzki G, Smith C, Smyth G, Tierney L, Yang JYH, Zhang J (2004). "Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics." Genome Biology, 5(10), R80. doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80.

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:


if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

## The following initializes the development version of Bioconductor
BiocManager::install(version = "devel")

BiocManager::install("HiCPotts")

For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.

Documentation

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browseVignettes("HiCPotts")
Bayesian Analysis of Hi-C Interactions with HiCPotts HTML R Script
HiCPotts Function and Argument Reference HTML R Script
Reference Manual PDF
NEWS Text
LICENSE Text

Details

biocViews Bayesian, Classification, DataImport, FunctionalGenomics, GenomeAnnotation, GenomeWideAssociation, HiddenMarkovModel, PeakDetection, Regression, Software, Spatial, StatisticalMethod
Version 1.3.1
In Bioconductor since BioC 3.22 (R-4.5) (1 year)
License GPL-3 | file LICENSE
Depends R (>= 4.5)
Imports Rcpp (>= 0.11.0), Biostrings, GenomicRanges, IRanges, S4Vectors, ggnewscale, parallel, rhdf5, rlang, rtracklayer, stats, withr
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URL https://github.com/igosungithub/HiCPotts
Bug Reports https://github.com/igosungithub/HiCPotts/issues
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Suggests BSgenome, BSgenome.Dmelanogaster.UCSC.dm6, BiocManager, BiocStyle, ggplot2 (>= 3.5.0), knitr (>= 1.30), reshape2 (>= 1.4.4), rmarkdown (>= 2.10), testthat (>= 3.0.0)
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