Skeletal muscle differentiation is regulated by a network of transcription factors, epigenetic regulators and noncoding RNAs. We have recently performed ChIP-seq experiments to explore the genome-wide binding of transcription factor YY1 in skeletal muscle cells. Our results identified thousands of YY1 binding peaks, underscoring its multifaceted functions in muscle cells. In particular, we identified a very high proportion of YY1 binding peaks residing in the intergenic regions, which led to the discovery of some novel lincRNAs under YY1 regulation. Here we describe the details of the ChIP-seq experiments and data analysis procedures associated with the study published by Lu et al. in the EMBO Journal in 2013 [1].