Michaël Liefsoens, Maria Barbi and Tim Földes have developed an approach based on spectral analysis to detect the presence of loops, often involved in gene expression, in the 3D structures of chromosomes.Published in Nature Communications, this approach facilitates the analysis of chromosome architectures and opens up new perspectives for the study of the genome.
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