@article {Stricker047464, author = {Georg Stricker and Alexander Engelhardt and Daniel Schulz and Matthias Schmid and Achim Tresch and Julien Gagneur}, title = {GenoGAM: Genome-wide generalized additive models for ChIP-seq analysis}, elocation-id = {047464}, year = {2017}, doi = {10.1101/047464}, publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory}, abstract = {Motivation Chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by deep sequencing (ChIP-Seq) is a widely used approach to study protein-DNA interactions. Often, the quantities of interest are the differential occupancies relative to controls, between genetic backgrounds, treatments, or combinations thereof. Current methods for differential occupancy of ChIP-seq data rely however on binning or sliding window techniques, for which the choice of the window and bin sizes are subjective.Results Here, we present GenoGAM (Genome-wide Generalized Additive Model), which brings the well-established and flexible generalized additive models framework to genomic applications using a data parallelism strategy. We model ChIP-Seq read count frequencies as products of smooth functions along chromosomes. Smoothing parameters are objectively estimated from the data by cross-validation, eliminating ad-hoc binning and windowing needed by current approaches. GenoGAM provides base-level and region-level significance testing for full factorial designs. Application to a ChIP-Seq dataset in yeast showed increased sensitivity over existing differential occupancy methods while controlling for type I error rate. By analyzing a set of DNA methylation data and illustrating an extension to a peak caller, we further demonstrate the potential of GenoGAM as a generic statistical modeling tool for genome-wide assays.Availability Software is available from Bioconductor: https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/GenoGAM.htmlContact gagneur{at}in.tum.deSupplementary information Supplementary information is available at Bioinformatics online.}, URL = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/02/16/047464}, eprint = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/02/16/047464.full.pdf}, journal = {bioRxiv} }