Figure 1.
Schematic description of GNM methodology applied to Hi-C data. The inter-loci contact data represented by the Hi-C map (upper left, for genomic bins (loci)) is used to construct the GNM Kirchhoff matrix,
(top, middle). Eigenvalue decomposition of
yields a series of eigenmodes which are used for computing the covariance matrix (lower, right), the diagonal elements of which reflect the mobility profile of the loci (bottom, left), and the off-diagonal elements provide information on locus-locus spatial cross-correlations.
,
th eigenvector;
,
th eigenvalue;
, number of nonzero modes, starting from the lowest-frequency mode, included in the GNM analysis (
). In the present application to the chromosomes,
varies in the range
, the lower and upper limits corresponding respectively to chromosomes 22 and 1.