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Noise-aware inference is needed for live-cell chromatin loop dynamics because simple 3D distance thresholding can severely misestimate looping probability, lifetime, and search time under realistic localization precision.
- Why it matters: Live-cell microscopy extracts dynamical loop parameters from noisy 3D trajectories, but event calling from distance measurements can fail when measurement uncertainty rivals the interaction scale.
- What they did: Using polymer simulations with known ground truth, the study evaluates thresholding on 3D distances under realistic localization precision and applies statistical arguments to identify when inference becomes infeasible.
- The result: When localization error is comparable to interaction size, threshold-based inference breaks down, while noise-aware methods estimate looping parameters more accurately in these regimes.
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