Chromatin states are the key to embryonic stem cell pluripotency and differentiation. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) followed by high-throughput sequencing (ChIP-Seq) is increasingly used to map chromatin states and to functionally annotate the genome. Many ChIP-Seq profiles, especially those of histone methylations, are noisy and diffuse. Here we describe SICER (Zang et al., Bioinformatics 25(15):1952–1958, 2009), an algorithm specifically designed to identify disperse ChIP-enriched regions with high sensitivity and specificity. This algorithm has found a lot of applications in epigenomic studies. In this Chapter, we will demonstrate in detail how to run SICER to delineate ChIP-enriched regions and assess their statistical significance, and to identify regions of differential enrichment when two chromatin states are compared.
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Xu, S., Grullon, S., Ge, K., & Peng, W. (2014). Spatial clustering for identification of chip-enriched regions (SICER) to map regions of histone methylation patterns in embryonic stem cells. Methods in Molecular Biology, 1150, 97–111. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0512-6_5
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