Bayesian ChIP-seq Peak Calling — Probabilistic Enrichment Detection in Epigenomic Data

Bayesian ChIP-seq peak calling applies probabilistic models — typically Poisson, negative binomial, or hidden Markov models with Bayesian inference — to detect genomic regions enriched for a protein of interest in chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing experiments. By explicitly modelling read-count noise and incorporating prior distributions, Bayesian callers yield posterior probabilities of enrichment rather than simple p-values, providing a principled framework for uncertainty quantification across the genome.