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HiCPotts

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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")):

Itunu. Godwin Osuntoki, Nicolae. Radu Zabet. HiCPotts: Hierarchical Modeling to Identify and Correct Genomic Biases in Hi-C. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.HiCPotts, R package version 1.3.1, https://bioconductor.org/packages/HiCPotts.

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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")

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Documentation

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browseVignettes("HiCPotts")
HiCPotts Function and Argument Reference HTML R Script
Bayesian Analysis of Hi-C Interactions with HiCPotts HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
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Details

biocViews Bayesian, Classification, DataImport, FunctionalGenomics, GenomeAnnotation, GenomeWideAssociation, HiddenMarkovModel, PeakDetection, Regression, Software, Spatial, StatisticalMethod
Version1.3.1
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 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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URLhttps://github.com/igosungithub/HiCPotts
Bug Reportshttps://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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