Massively multiplex single-cell Hi-C

Abstract

We present combinatorial single cell Hi-C, a novel method that leverages combinatorial cellular indexing to measure chromosome conformation in large numbers of single cells. In this proof-of-concept, we generate and sequence combinatorial single cell Hi-C libraries for two mouse and four human cell types, comprising a total of 9,316 single cells across 5 experiments. We demonstrate the utility of single-cell Hi-C data in separating different cell types, identify previously uncharacterized cell-to-cell heterogeneity in the conformational properties of mammalian chromosomes, and demonstrate that combinatorial indexing is a generalizable molecular strategy for single-cell genomics.