CHARMER: detecting and harmonizing high-confidence chromatin interactions across tissues and Hi-C protocols.

Chromatin conformation capture experiments (CCC), such as Hi-C and Capture Hi-C (CHiC) work to elucidate the three-dimensional organization of the genome and the underlying epigenetic regulatory structures within. CCC experiments produce large amounts of FASTQ sequencing data with a substantial amount of technical noise and require sophisticated computational pipelines in order to extract meaningful results. Large-scale CCC data repositories like 4D Nucleome and ENCODE mostly provide raw contact information but lack annotated, statistically significant interaction data suitable for downstream genetic and genomic analyses.