#HiCPlotter: Integrating HiC data with genomic datasets

About HiCPlotter

HiCPlotter is a Python data visualization tool for integrating different data types with interaction matrixes. For more on 5C or HiC, please check: Dekker et al. 2013.

HiCPlotter is designed by Kadir Caner Akdemir (kcakedemir at mdanderson dot org / find me on Twitter) in Lynda Chin's Lab at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

Requirements

Python 2.7.*

Numpy, Scipy, Matplotlib.

  • Please note: scipy, numpy and matplotlib modules should be installed and updated to current version. Following versions of numpy (1.9.0, 1.9.2), scipy(0.14.0, 0.15.1) and matplotlib(1.3.1, 1.4.3) have been tested successfully.
  • If you receive error(s) related to one or more of these modules, check this solution and/or check versions of python and required modules.
  • If you receive an error about jpeg encoder, please check Tips section below.

HiCPlotter is tested on Mac OS (Mountain Lion and Yosemite) and Linux (RedHat 4.1.2-44 and 5.5-Final) systems.

HiCPlotter is purposefully designed with the least amount of dependencies to make it easily applicable.

Arguments

Required parameters:

files: a list of filenames to be plotted.
name: a list of labels for the experiment.
chr: chromosome to be plotted.
output: prefix for the output file.

Optional parameters:

verbose: print version and arguments into a file
histograms: a list of filenames to be plotted as histogram.
histLabels: a list of labels for the histograms.
fillHist: a list whether each histogram will be filled (1) or not (0:default).
histMax : a list of integer for maximum values of histograms.
start: retain after x-th bin (0:default).
end: continues until x-th bin (default: length of the matrix).
resolution: resolution of the bins (default: 100000).
tilePlots: a list of filenames to be plotted as tile plots.
tileLabels: a list of labels for the tile plots.
tileColors: a list of hexadecimal numbers for coloring the tile plots.
tileText: an integer whether text will be displayed above tiles (0:default) or not (1).
arcPlots: a list of filenames to be plotted as arc plots.
arcLabels: a list of labels for the arc plots.
arcColors: a list of hexadecimal numbers for coloring the arc plots.
highlights: an integer for enabling highlights on the plot (0:default), enable(1). 
highFile: a file name for a bed file to highlight selected intervals.
peakFiles : a list of filenames to be plotted on the matrix.
window: an integer of distance to calculate insulation score.
tadRange: an integer of window to calculate local minima for TAD calls.
fileHeader: an integer for how many lines should be ignored in the matrix file (1:default).
fileFooter: an integer for how many lines should be skipped at the end of the matrix file (0:default).
smoothNoise: a floating-point number to clean noise in the data.
heatmapColor: an integer for choosing heatmap color codes: Greys(0), Reds(1), YellowToBlue(2), YellowToRed(3-default), Hot(4), BlueToRed(5).
cleanNANs: an integer for replacing NaNs in the matrix with zeros (1:default) or not (0).
plotTriangular: an integer for plotting rotated half matrix (1:default) or not (0).
plotTadDomains: an integer for plotting TADs identified by HiCPlotter (1) or not (0:default).
plotPublishedTadDomins: an integer for plotting TADs from Dixon et, al. 2012 (1:default) or not (0).
plotDomainsAsBars: an integer for plotting TADs as bars (1) instead of triangles (0:default)
highResolution: an integer whether plotting high resolution (1:default) or not (0).
plotInsulation: an integer for plotting insulation scores (0:default) or plot (1).
randomBins: an integer for plotting random resolution data (1:default) or not (0).
wholeGenome: an integer for plotting whole genome interactions (1:default) or not (0).
plotCustomDomains: a list of file names to be plotted beneath the matrix.
publishedTadDomainOrganism : an integer for plotting human (1:default) or mouse (0) TADs from Dixon et, al. 2012.
customDomainsFile: a list of filenames to be plotted as TADs for each experiments.

Input Files

Hi-C/5C matrix data

For visualizing Hi-C or 5C data, HiCPlotter requires a matrix file (by default first line is ignored).

Matrix files are plotted as their log2 values and color legend is put below the plot.

Bin1	Bin2	Bin3	Bin4	Bin5	Bin6
7.85957	4.80329	11.4766	9.57416	4.5288	8.55022
8.61621	4.98956	2.35654	5.69483	11.1187	10.1322
4.06803	4.07801	7.98047	2.59144	6.3851	7.74306
4.52869	2.70624	8.94544	4.29185	8.29491	8.38257
2.91472	3.84658	1.56752	4.48515	7.4955	8.77461
3.08096	2.96487	7.23623	2.33142	3.08529	5.5379
3.12141	3.06905	4.97247	2.39298	5.03621	7.22344
3.4037	2.26455	1.48176	1.41958	3.40252	7.7027
3.8696	1.41425	7.68872	2.21027	5.06846	3.20063

If your file (example is modified from GSM873926) has several header lines, use -fh parameter (this particular case -fh 5).

# resultName	mESCs-female-PGK-day2-Replicate1			
#				
#				
#
REV_2|mm9|chrX:98831149-98834145	REV_4|mm9|chrX:98837507-98840771	REV_6|mm9|chrX:98841228-98843248	REV_12|mm9|chrX:98855723-98862021
936.010581657246					743.499513378904					241.956223702097					23.2451328286973
69.8831429744098					513.412096905019					747.143877424081					7.1902317648089

If your file is in bed file format as in GSM1081531, you can covert it to a matrix file with bedToMatrix.py in Utils directory. Each file should have data from one chromosome. To split the file, you can use -> awk '{if($1=="chr6") print}' [file] > [newfile]

chr6	80000_120000	120000_160000	10.278
chr6	80000_120000	160000_200000	3.648
chr6	80000_120000	200000_240000	4.204

*run python bedToMatrix.py [file_name] 

BedGraph

For visualizing any type of genomic data, HiCPlotter uses bedGraph format.

chromA  chromStartA  chromEndA  dataValueA color     text
chr1	10000		 10500		10.0	   250,13,27 Polycomb

4th column should be a floating number for histograms.

5th column should be an rgb color for tile or arc plots.

6th column should be a string for tile plots. Columns after 6th will be ignored.

Peak File

For annotating the interaction matrix, HiCPlotter requires the following format.

chromA	chromStartA  chromEndA	chromB	chromStartB chromEndB	color (optional)
chr10	100180000	100190000	chr10	100410000	100420000	0,255,255
chr10	101600000	101610000	chr10	101800000	101810000	0,255,255
chr10	102100000	102105000	chr10	102190000	102195000	0,255,255

Usage

python HiCPlotter.py -f file1 file2 -n name1 name2 -chr chrX -o output

You can generate all of the following examples by using "sh testRun.sh", all of required files are in the data folder.

Plotting whole chromosome

Please note: -fh is set to 0 as the input matrix doesn't have a header line.

Hi-C and TADs data taken from: Dixon et, al. Nature 2012

python HiCPlotter.py -f data/HiC/Human/hES-nij.chr21.2 -n hES -chr chr21 -r 40000 -o default1 -fh 0
**Chromosome interactions at chromosome 21 in human ES cells**

Example plot from HiCPlotter

Focusing to a region within a chromosome

Start and end locations can be specified as bin numbers with -s and -e parameters.

Color of triangles specify interaction frequency in a given TAD.

TADs identified by Dixon et al. can be plotted with -pptd parameter.

TADs can be plotted as bars instead of triangles with -pdb parameter.

python HiCPlotter.py -f data/HiC/Human/hES-nij.chr21.2 -n hES -chr chr21 -r 40000 -o default2 -ptd 1 -pptd 1 -s 600 -e 900 -fh 0 -w 8 -tr 10 -pi 1
**Chromosome interactions at chromosome 21 in human ES cells**

Example plot from HiCPlotter

python HiCPlotter.py -f data/HiC/Human/hES-nij.chr21.2 -n hES -chr chr21 -r 40000 -o default2 -ptd 1 -pptd 1 -s 600 -e 900 -fh 0 -w 8 -tr 10 -pi 1 -pdb 1
**Domains as bars**

Example plot from HiCPlotter

Visualization of multiple Hi-C datasets

Hi-C data taken from: Zuin et, al. PNAS 2014

Color code of the heatmaps can be changed with -hmc parameter

python HiCPlotter.py -f data/HiC/Human/GSM1081526_TEV_r1_cis.index.chr6.txt_matrix.txt data/HiC/Human/GSM1081528_HRV_r1_cis.index.chr6.txt_matrix.txt data/HiC/Human/GSM1081530_CTRL_r1_cis.index.chr6.txt_matrix.txt data/HiC/Human/GSM1081533_CTCF_r2_cis.index.chr6.txt_matrix.txt -n WT RAD21-Depleted siControl CTCF-Depleted -chr chr6 -r 40000 -fh 0 -pi 0 -sn 0.35 -o Rad21.CTCF -s 2800 -e 2950 -hmc 5
**Chromosome interactions for wild type, RAD21-depleted, CTCF-depleted cells.**

Example plot from HiCPlotter

Example cases with publicly available datasets

Visualization of ChIP-Seq and 4C data as histograms

Multiple histograms for the same matrix should be seperated by comma (true for hist labels and fill histogram parameters).

Data taken from: 4C : Noordermer et, al. Elife 2014, Hi-C and TADs : Dixon et, al. Nature 2012 and CTCF : Stadler et, al. Nature 2011

python HiCPlotter.py -f data/HiC/Mouse/mES.chr2 -n mES -chr chr2 -r 40000 -o HoxD -hist data/HiC/Mouse/GSM1334415_4C_Mouse_EScells_Hoxd4_smoothed_11windows.bedGraph,data/HiC/Mouse/GSM1334440_4C_Mouse_E9.5TB_Hoxd4_smoothed_11windows.bedGraph,data/HiC/Mouse/GSM1334412_4C_Mouse_EScells_Hoxd13_smoothed_11windows.bedGraph,data/HiC/Mouse/GSM1334437_4C_Mouse_E9.5TB_Hoxd13_smoothed_11windows.bedGraph,data/HiC/Mouse/GSM747534_ChIPseq_CTCF_ES_rep1.chr2.bedGraph -hl Hoxd4-ES,Hoxd4-Tail,Hoxd13-ES,Hoxd13-Tail,CTCF-ES -s 1830 -e 1880 -fh 0 -pi 0 -pcd 1 -pcdf data/mES_domains_mm9.bed -fhist 1,1,1,1,0 -hm 2000,2000,2000,2000,50
**3D compartments in the HoxD cluster in mouse ES cells**

Example plot from HiCPlotter

Visualization of ChIP-Seq and RAP-Seq data as histograms

Data taken from: RAP-seq : Engreitz et al. Science 2014, Hi-C : Dixon et, al. Nature 2012 and H3K27me3 : Mouse ENCODE Project

Rotated matrix can be removed with -ptr 0 parameter

python HiCPlotter.py -f data/HiC/Mouse/mES.chrX -n mES -r 40000 -chr chrX -o RAP -fh 0 -hist data/HiC/Mouse/GSE46918_pSM33-0hr-Xist_vs_Input.W10000_O7500.bedGraph,data/HiC/Mouse/GSE46918_pSM33-1hr-Xist_vs_Input.W10000_O7500.bedGraph,data/HiC/Mouse/GSE46918_pSM33-2hr-Xist_vs_Input.W10000_O7500.bedGraph,data/HiC/Mouse/GSE46918_pSM33-3hr-Xist_vs_Input.W10000_O7500.bedGraph,data/HiC/Mouse/GSE46918_pSM33-6hr-Xist_vs_Input.W10000_O7500.bedGraph,data/HiC/Mouse/wgEncodeLicrHistoneEsb4H3k27me3ME0C57bl6StdSig.chrX.bedGraph -hl Xist_0h,Xist_1h,Xist_2h,Xist_3h,Xist_6h,H3K27me3_0h -pi 0 -ptr 0 -fhist 0,1,1,1,1,0 -hmc 4 -sn 0
**Xist spreading during initiation of X-chromosome inactivation**

Example plot from HiCPlotter

Visualization of ChIP-Seq as histograms, ChIA-Pet as arcs and Polycomb domains as tiles

Arc plots require a bedGraph file (-a file1), color can be specied as a hexadecimal number (-ac B4B4B4) or for each arc by specified RGB colors in bedGraph file.

Data taken from: SMC ChIA-Pet and Polycomb Domains: Dowen et, al. Cell 2014, Hi-C and TADs : Dixon et, al. Nature 2012 and H3K27me3 : Mouse ENCODE Project

python s.py -f data/HiC/Mouse/mES.chr3 -n mES -chr chr3 -o Bhlhe22 -r 40000 -s 400 -e 500 -a data/HiC/Mouse/mESC_SMC_ChIPPet.bed -al SMC -hist data/HiC/Mouse/GSM747534_chr3.bedGraph,data/HiC/Mouse/wgEncodeLicrHistoneEsb4H3k27me3ME0C57bl6StdSig.chr3.bedGraph -hl CTCF,H3K27me3 -pi 0 -ptr 0 -t data/HiC/Mouse/mm9_Polycomb_domains.bed -tl Polycomb -tc 00CCFF -ac B4B4B4 -fh 0
**Bhlhe22 locus in mouse ES cells**

Example plot from HiCPlotter

Visualization of 4C data as histograms and Enhancers as tiles with text

If bedGraph file for tile plotting contains text in 6th column, features can be plotted above tiles with -tt parameter.

Data taken from: 4C : Lonfat et, al. Science 2014 (Primer locations in Lonfat et, al. are extended to make them more visible in the plot), Hi-C and TADs : Dixon et, al. Nature 2012

python HiCPlotter.py -f data/HiC/Mouse/mES.chr6 -n mES -chr chr6 -r 40000 -o Digit.vs.GT -s 1295 -e 1338 -hist data/HiC/Mouse/GSM1524258_segToFrag_4C_Digits_WT_E12-5_HoxA13_smoothed_11FragsPerWin.bedGraph,data/HiC/Mouse/GSM1524259_segToFrag_4C_GT_WT_E15-5_HoxA13_smoothed_11FragsPerWin.bedGraph -hl Digits,GT -fhist 1,1 -fh 0 -pi 0 -hm 1500,1500 -pcd 1 -pcdf data/mES_domains_mm9.bed -sn 0.4 -t data/HiC/Mouse/primers.bedGraph -tl Enhancers -tt 1
**Interaction profiles of Hoxa13 gene with tissue specific enhancers**

Example plot from HiCPlotter

Highlighting selected loci on the plot

Highlights on the plots can be drawn with -high 1 and passing a bed file name to -hf parameter.

Data taken from: Hi-C and Arrow domains : Rao et, al. Cell 2014, ChIA-Pet Heidari et, al. Genome Research 2014, TADs : Dixon et, al. Nature 2012, ChIP-Seq and Repli-Seq data : Encode Project

python HiCPlotter.py -f data/HiC/Human/GM12878-chr10_25kb.RAWobserved_KRnormalizedMatrix.txt data/HiC/Human/K562-chr10_25kb.RAWobserved_KRnormalizedMatrix.txt -n GM12878 K562 -chr chr10 -r 25000 -pi 0 -fh 0 -o ChIA -a data/HiC/Human/GM12878.Rad21.bed data/HiC/Human/K562.Rad21.bed -al ChIA-PET ChIA-PET -s 3000 -e 3500 -pcd 1 -pcdf data/HiC/Human/GM12878_Arrowhead_domainlist.bed data/HiC/Human/K562_Arrowhead_domainlist.bed -hist data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeUwDnaseGm12878RawRep2.chr10.bedGraph,data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeBroadHistoneGm12878CtcfStdSig.chr10.bedGraph,data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeUwRepliSeqGm12878WaveSignalRep1.bedGraph data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeUwDnaseK562RawRep2.chr10.bedGraph,data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeBroadHistoneK562CtcfStdSig.chr10.bedGraph,data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeUwRepliSeqK562WaveSignalRep1.bedGraph -hl DNAse,CTCF,RepliSeq DNAse,CTCF,RepliSeq -fhist 0,0,1 0,0,1 -pptd 1 -high 1 -hf data/HiC/Human/highlight.bed
**Interaction profiles in chromosome 10 of GM12878 and K562 cells.**

Example plot from HiCPlotter

Annotating the interaction matrix

Annotations on the matrix can be drawn with -peak parameter.Input file should contain at least six columns.

Data taken from: Hi-C and HiCCUP peaks : Rao et, al. Cell 2014

python HiCPlotter.py -f data/HiC/Human/GM12878-chr10_25kb.RAWobserved_KRnormalizedMatrix.txt data/HiC/Human/KBM7-chr10_25kb.RAWobserved_KRnormalizedMatrix.txt data/HiC/Human/K562-chr10_25kb.RAWobserved_KRnormalizedMatrix.txt data/HiC/Human/HUVEC-chr10_25kb.RAWobserved_KRnormalizedMatrix.txt data/HiC/Human/IMR90-chr10_25kb.RAWobserved_KRnormalizedMatrix.txt data/HiC/Human/HMEC-chr10_25kb.RAWobserved_KRnormalizedMatrix.txt data/HiC/Human/NHEK-chr10_25kb.RAWobserved_KRnormalizedMatrix.txt -n GM12878 KBM7 K562 HUVEC IMR90 HMEC NHEK -r 25000 -pi 0 -fh 0 -o Loops -chr chr10 -peak data/HiC/Human/GSE63525_GM12878_replicate_HiCCUPS_looplist.bed data/HiC/Human/GSE63525_KBM7_HiCCUPS_looplist.bed data/HiC/Human/GSE63525_K562_HiCCUPS_looplist.bed data/HiC/Human/GSE63525_HUVEC_HiCCUPS_looplist.bed data/HiC/Human/GSE63525_IMR90_HiCCUPS_looplist.bed data/HiC/Human/GSE63525_HMEC_HiCCUPS_looplist.bed data/HiC/Human/GSE63525_NHEK_HiCCUPS_looplist.bed -s 3600 -e 3675  -ptr 0
**Significantly interaction loci (peaks) in several cell lines.**

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Whole Genome Plotting

Whole genome plotting can be activated by -wg parameter (Please note: currently only matrixes can be plotted with this option).

Data taken from: Hi-C : Seitan et, al. Genome Research 2014

python HiCPlotter.py -f data/HiC/Human/GSM1184323-HiCMYZ-Tcell-Rad21WT-R1.mm9.NA.L-1400000-wDiag-noSS-iced.2.matrix data/HiC/Human/GSM1184321-HiCMYZ-Tcell-Rad21KO-R1.mm9.NA.L-1400000-wDiag-noSS-iced.2.matrix -n Tcell_WT Tcell_Rad21KO -chr Genome -r 1400000 -o Tcell -pi 0 -ptr 0 -wg 1 -hmc 5 -fh 4
**T-cell whole genome interaction data in wild type and Rad21 knock-out cells**

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5C data visualization

Random binned 5C data plotting can be activated by -rb parameter (Please note: currently only matrixes and triangular plots can be plotted with this option).

Data taken from: 5C data Nora et, al. Nature 2012

python HiCPlotter.py -f data/5C/GSM873926_mESCs-female-PGK12.1-day2-Replicate1.txt data/5C/GSM873932_femaleXO-mESCs-DXTX-replicate-1.matrix.txt data/5C/GSM873924_female-MEFs-replicate-1.matrix.txt -n mESC mESC_XO MEF -fh 8 -chr chrX -o 5C -sn 2 -pi 0 -rb 1 -e 300 -hmc 5
**Xist locus in mouse ES, mouse ES Xist deletion and MEF cells**

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Figures

Basic usage

python HiCPlotter.py -f data/HiC/Human/GM12878-chr10_25kb.RAWobserved_KRnormalizedMatrix.txt data/HiC/Human/K562-chr10_25kb.RAWobserved_KRnormalizedMatrix.txt data/HiC/Human/HUVEC-chr10_25kb.RAWobserved_KRnormalizedMatrix.txt data/HiC/Human/NHEK-chr10_25kb.RAWobserved_KRnormalizedMatrix.txt data/HiC/Human/IMR90-chr10_25kb.RAWobserved_KRnormalizedMatrix.txt -n GM12878 K562 HUVEC NHEK IMR90 -chr chr10 -r 25000 -s 3000 -e 3250 -o Figure1 -fh 0
**Basic Usage of HiCPlotter**

Example plot from HiCPlotter

Adding tracks

python HiCPlotter.py -f data/HiC/Human/GM12878-chr10_25kb.RAWobserved_KRnormalizedMatrix.txt data/HiC/Human/K562-chr10_25kb.RAWobserved_KRnormalizedMatrix.txt data/HiC/Human/HUVEC-chr10_25kb.RAWobserved_KRnormalizedMatrix.txt data/HiC/Human/NHEK-chr10_25kb.RAWobserved_KRnormalizedMatrix.txt data/HiC/Human/IMR90-chr10_25kb.RAWobserved_KRnormalizedMatrix.txt -n GM12878 K562 HUVEC NHEK IMR90 -chr chr10 -r 25000 -s 3000 -e 3500 -o Figure2 -hist data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeUwDnaseGm12878RawRep2.chr10.bedGraph,data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeBroadHistoneGm12878CtcfStdSig.chr10.bedGraph,data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeUwRepliSeqGm12878WaveSignalRep1.bedGraph data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeUwDnaseK562RawRep2.chr10.bedGraph,data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeBroadHistoneK562CtcfStdSig.chr10.bedGraph,data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeUwRepliSeqK562WaveSignalRep1.bedGraph data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeUwDnaseHuvecRawRep2.chr10.bedGraph,data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeBroadHistoneHuvecCtcfStdSig.chr10.bedGraph,data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeUwRepliSeqHuvecWaveSignalRep1.bedGraph data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeUwDnaseNhekRawRep2.chr10.bedGraph,data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeBroadHistoneNhekCtcfStdSig.chr10.bedGraph,data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeUwRepliSeqNhekWaveSignalRep1.bedGraph data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeOpenChromDnaseImr90BaseOverlapSignal.chr10.bedGraph,data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeSydhTfbsImr90CtcfbIggrabSig.chr10.bedGraph,data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeUwRepliSeqImr90WaveSignalRep1.bedGraph -fh 0 -fhist 0,0,1 0,0,1 0,0,1 0,0,1 0,0,1 -hl DNAse,CTCF,RepliSeq DNAse,CTCF,RepliSeq DNAse,CTCF,RepliSeq DNAse,CTCF,RepliSeq DNAse,CTCF,RepliSeq -hm 400,600,100 400,600,100 400,600,100 400,600,100 400,600,100 -pcd 1 -pcdf data/HiC/Human/GM12878_Arrowhead_domainlist.bed data/HiC/Human/K562_Arrowhead_domainlist.bed data/HiC/Human/HUVEC_Arrowhead_domainlist.bed data/HiC/Human/NHEK_Arrowhead_domainlist.bed data/HiC/Human/IMR90_Arrowhead_domainlist.txt -t data/HiC/Human/GM12878_18_core_K27ac_dense2.bed data/HiC/Human/K562_18_core_K27ac_dense2.bed data/HiC/Human/HUVEC_18_core_K27ac_dense2.bed data/HiC/Human/NHEK_18_core_K27ac_dense2.bed data/HiC/Human/IMR90_18_core_K27ac_dense2.bed -tl ChromHMM ChromHMM ChromHMM ChromHMM ChromHMM -pptd 1 -high 1 -hf data/HiC/Human/fig2.bed 
**Adding tracks**

Example plot from HiCPlotter

Cohesin ChIA-PET interactions coincide with early replication sites

python HiCPlotter.py -f data/HiC/Human/GM12878-chr15_25kb.RAWobserved_KRnormalizedMatrix.txt data/HiC/Human/K562-chr15_25kb.RAWobserved_KRnormalizedMatrix.txt -n GM12878 K562 -chr chr15 -r 25000 -s 1800 -e 2250 -o Figure3 -hist data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeUwDnaseGm12878RawRep1.chr15.bedGraph,data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeBroadHistoneGm12878CtcfStdSig.chr15.bedGraph,data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeUwRepliSeqGm12878WaveSignalRep1.bedGraph data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeUwDnaseK562RawRep1.chr15.bedGraph,data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeBroadHistoneK562CtcfStdSig.chr15.bedGraph,data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeUwRepliSeqK562WaveSignalRep1.bedGraph -fh 0 -fhist 0,0,1 0,0,1 -hl DNase,CTCF,RepliSeq DNase,CTCF,RepliSeq -hm 400,400,100 400,400,100 -t data/HiC/Human/GM12878_Enhancer.bed,data/HiC/Human/GM12878_Txn.bed,data/HiC/Human/GM12878_Het.bed data/HiC/Human/K562_Enhancer.bed,data/HiC/Human/K562_Txn.bed,data/HiC/Human/K562_Het.bed -tl Enhancer,Transcribed,Heterochromatin Enhancer,Transcribed,Heterochromatin -a data/HiC/Human/GM12878.Rad21.bed data/HiC/Human/K562.Rad21.bed -al RAD21 RAD21 -ptr 0 -high 1 -hf data/HiC/Human/fig3.bed
**Cohesin ChIA-PET interactions coincide with early replication sites**

Example plot from HiCPlotter

A lincRNA locus exhibits active chromatin formation in K562 cells

python HiCPlotter.py -f data/HiC/Human/GM-chr19_25kb.RAWobserved_KRnormalizedMatrix.txt data/HiC/Human/K562-chr19_25kb.RAWobserved_KRnormalizedMatrix.txt -n GM12878 K562 -r 25000 -chr chr19 -hist data/HiC/Human/GM12878.DNAse.chr19.2.bedGraph,data/HiC/Human/GM12878.RnaSeq.chr19.2.bedGraph,data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeUwRepliSeqGm12878WaveSignalRep1.bedGraph data/HiC/Human/K562.DNAse.chr19.2.bedGraph,data/HiC/Human/K562.RnaSeq.chr19.2.bedGraph,data/HiC/Human/wgEncodeUwRepliSeqK562WaveSignalRep1.bedGraph -hl DNAse,RNASeq,RepliSeq DNAse,RNASeq,RepliSeq -t data/HiC/Human/GM12878_TSS+Trx.2.bed data/HiC/Human/K562_TSS+Trx.2.bed -tl ChromHMM ChromHMM -high 1 -hf data/HiC/Human/region.bed -o Figure4 -s 1100 -e 1302 -hm 300,300,100 300,300,100 -fh 0 -fhist 0,0,1 0,0,1 -ptr 0
**A lincRNA locus exhibits active chromatin formation in K562 cells**

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Tips

*If your data contains several columns before data matrix, from command line you could use:

cut -f N- matrix > new_matrix (where N is the ith column data values start)

*If any of the imported packages are missing in your python system, try to comment out those lines. For example:

Original  :     from scipy.signal import argrelextrema (line 20)
Try this  :     #from scipy.signal import argrelextrema (line 20). Use HiCPlotter with the -pi 0 and -ptd 0

*If you received the following error: "IOError: encoder jpeg not available", please change extensions of '.jpeg' to '.png' after line 880.

*If you like to run HiCPlotter in verbose mode, please use -v parameter which will create a log file with which parameters the program ran.

*If you need to convert bigWig files to bedGraph files, you can use kentUtils/bigWigToBedGraph executable.

Help:

If you encounter any problems, please contact with - Kadir Akdemir (kcakedemir at mdanderson dot org).

License

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Copyright (c) 2015, Kadir C. Akdemir and Lynda Chin

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to Lynda Chin for her leadership, management and support.

Thanks to Zeynep Coban-Akdemir, Ian Watson, Denise Spring, Jason Ernst, Tony Gutschner, Kunal Rai and Samir Amin for their insightful comments.

We are grateful to many researchers cited above for providing their data in publicly available and easy-to-use format.