PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Vijay Ramani
AU  - Xinxian Deng
AU  - Ruolan Qiu
AU  - Choli Lee
AU  - Christine M Disteche
AU  - William S Noble
AU  - Zhijun Duan
AU  - Jay Shendure
TI  - Sci-Hi-C: a single-cell Hi-C method for mapping 3D genome organization in large number of single cells
AID  - 10.1101/579573
DP  - 2019 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 579573
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/03/15/579573.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/03/15/579573.full
AB  - The highly dynamic nature of chromosome conformation and three-dimensional (3D) genome organization leads to cell-to-cell variability in chromatin interactions within a cell population, even if the cells of the population appear to be functionally homogeneous. Hence, although Hi-C is a powerful tool for mapping 3D genome organization, this heterogeneity of chromosome higher order structure among individual cells limits the interpretive power of population based bulk Hi-C assays. Moreover, single-cell studies have the potential to enable the identification and characterization of rare cell populations or cell subtypes in a heterogeneous population. However, it may require surveying relatively large numbers of single cells to achieve statistically meaningful observations in single-cell studies. By applying combinatorial cellular indexing to chromosome conformation capture, we developed single-cell combinatorial indexed Hi-C (sci-Hi-C), a high throughput method that enables mapping chromatin interactomes in large number of single cells. We demonstrated the use of sci-Hi-C data to separate cells by karytoypic and cell-cycle state differences and to identify cellular variability in mammalian chromosomal conformation. Here, we provide a detailed description of method design and step-by-step working protocols for sci-Hi-C.