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Arima Genomics HiChIP Assay and MAPS Pipeline

Mar 20, 2020

Arima Genomics has launched its HiChIP chromatin conformation assay. The assay is built on its Arima-HiC platform and introduces chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing to provide data on long-range chromatin interactions specifically enriched at genomic locations occupied by proteins of interest.

The firm has also created an optimized version of the Model-based Analysis of Proximity Ligation-Assisted ChIP-seq and HiChIP (MAPS) bioinformatics pipeline to help streamline data analysis.

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