MOCHA

A statistical framework and analysis tool for open chromatin analysis designed specifically for single cell ATAC-seq (Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin) data, after cell type/cluster identification. These novel modules remove unwanted technical variation, identify open chromatin, robustly models repeated measures in single cell data, implement advanced statistical frameworks to model zero-inflation for differential and co-accessibility analyses, and integrate with existing databases and modules for downstream analyses to reveal biological insights. MOCHA provides a statistical foundation for complex downstream analysis to help advance the potential of single cell ATAC-seq for applied studies. Methods for zero-inflated statistics are as described in: Ghazanfar, S., Lin, Y., Su, X. et al. (2020) doi:10.1038/s41592-020-0885-x. Pimentel, Ronald Silva, "Kendall's Tau and Spearman's Rho for Zero-Inflated Data" (2009) .