What are the “streaking” artefacts in the Hi-C contact maps?

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Assembly and Annotation workflows for analysing data in the Earth Biogenome Project pilot project.

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What are the “streaking” artefacts in the Hi-C contact maps? #19

Open mahesh-panchal opened 2 years ago

mahesh-panchal commented 2 years ago

Question from Remi:

What are the “streaking” artefacts in the Hi-C contact maps? I’ve seen them in some other assemblies, but have never drilled down into what is causing this. Is it just repeats?