
Distal regulatory elements have been shown to regulate gene transcription through spatial interactions, and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are linked with distal gene expression by spatial proximity, which helps to explain the causal role of disease-associated SNPs in non-coding region. Therefore, studies on spatial interactions between chromatin have created a new avenue for elucidating the mechanism of transcriptional regulation in disease pathogenesis. Recently, a growing number of chromatin interactions have been revealed by means of 3C, 4C, 5C, ChIA-PET and Hi-C technologies. To interpret and utilize these interactions, we constructed chromatin-chromatin spatial interaction (CCSI) database by integrating and annotating 91 sets of chromatin interaction data derived from published literature, UCSC database and NCBI GEO database, resulting in a total of 3,017,962 pairwise interactions (false discovery rate < 0.05), covering human, mouse and yeast. A web interface has been designed to provide access to the chromatin interactions. The main features of CCSI are (i) showing chromatin interactions and corresponding genes, enhancers and SNPs within the regions in the search page; (ii) offering complete interaction datasets, enhancer and SNP information in the download page; and (iii) providing analysis pipeline for the annotation of interaction data. In conclusion, CCSI will facilitate exploring transcriptional regulatory mechanism in disease pathogenesis associated with spatial interactions among genes, regulatory regions and SNPs. Database URL: http://songyanglab.sysu.edu.cn/ccsi.
Internet, Computational Biology, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Chromatin, Fungal Proteins, Mice, Gene Expression Regulation, Protein Interaction Mapping, Schizosaccharomyces, Animals, Humans, Original Article, Disease, False Positive Reactions, Databases, Nucleic Acid, Databases, Protein, Promoter Regions, Genetic
Internet, Computational Biology, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Chromatin, Fungal Proteins, Mice, Gene Expression Regulation, Protein Interaction Mapping, Schizosaccharomyces, Animals, Humans, Original Article, Disease, False Positive Reactions, Databases, Nucleic Acid, Databases, Protein, Promoter Regions, Genetic
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