Modeling and analysis of ChIP-chip experiments

Methods Mol Biol. 2009:567:133-43. doi: 10.1007/978-1-60327-414-2_9.

Abstract

Chromatin immunoprecipitation on microarrays, also known as ChIP-chip, is a popular technique for genome-wide localization of DNA-binding proteins. However, the high density (several million genomic sequences for small eukaryote genomes) and the high noise-to-signal ratio of microarrays make the analysis of ChIP-chip data very challenging. In this chapter, we review some of the issues involved in the analysis of ChIP-chip data and present a few statistical methods that can be used to overcome these issues and improve the detection of DNA-protein binding sites.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Animals
  • Chromatin Immunoprecipitation / methods*
  • Humans
  • Models, Biological*
  • Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / methods*
  • Research Design*
  • Software