DNA methylation is an epigenetic mechanism used by higher eukaryotes and involved in e.g. gene expression, X-Chromosome inactivating, imprinting, and gene silencing of germline specific gene and repetitive elements.

Questions of the tutorial:

• Why is a Hi-C analysis useful?
• What is 'chromosome conformation capture'?
• What are main steps in order to generate and plot a Hi-C contact matrix?