Nature Papers Present Tool for Topological Analysis of Chromosomes, Map of Genome-Lipid Associations

Sep 24, 2020

A method for genome-wide conformation analysis of replicated human chromosomes is reported in Nature this week. Chromosome conformation capture (Hi-C), which maps DNA contacts genome-wide, has enabled the analysis of vertebrate genome organization in three dimensions.

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