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. 2017 Mar 16;45(7):3663–3673. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx172

Figure 1.

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 Inline graphic genomic bins (loci)) is used to construct the GNM Kirchhoff matrix, Inline graphic (top, middle). Eigenvalue decomposition of Inline graphic 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. Inline graphic, Inline graphicth eigenvector; Inline graphic, Inline graphicth eigenvalue; Inline graphic, number of nonzero modes, starting from the lowest-frequency mode, included in the GNM analysis (Inline graphic). In the present application to the chromosomes, Inline graphic varies in the range Inline graphic, the lower and upper limits corresponding respectively to chromosomes 22 and 1.