Bioinformatic Analysis of Nucleosome and Histone Variant Positioning

Abstract

Assays profiling nucleosome positioning and occupancy are often coupled with high-throughput sequencing, which results in generation of large data sets. These data sets require processing in specialized computational pipelines to yield useful information. Here, we describe main steps of such a pipeline, and discuss bioinformatic and statistical aspects of assessing data quality, as well as data visualization and further analysis.