Rearrangement Scenarios Guided By Chromatin Structure

Genome architecture can be drastically modified through a succession of large-scale rearrangements. In the quest to infer accurate ancestral rearrangement scenarios, it is often the case that parsimony principal alone does not impose enough constraints. Thus, the current challenge is to consider more biological information in the inference process. In previous work, we introduced a model for such a task, based on a partition into equivalence classes of the adjacencies between genes. Such a partition is amenable to the representation of spacial constraints as given by Hi-C data. A major open question is the validity of such a model. In this note, we show that the quality of a clustering of the adjacencies based on Hi-C data is directly correlated to the quality of a rearrangement scenario that we compute between Drosophila melanogaster and D. yakuba.