Profiling genome-wide DNA methylation

WS Yong, FM Hsu, PY Chen - Epigenetics & chromatin, 2016 - Springer
DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification that plays an important role in regulating
gene expression and therefore a broad range of biological processes and diseases. DNA …

DNA methylation data by sequencing: experimental approaches and recommendations for tools and pipelines for data analysis

I Rauluseviciute, F Drabløs, MB Rye - Clinical epigenetics, 2019 - Springer
Sequencing technologies have changed not only our approaches to classical genetics, but
also the field of epigenetics. Specific methods allow scientists to identify novel genome-wide …

CGmapTools improves the precision of heterozygous SNV calls and supports allele-specific methylation detection and visualization in bisulfite-sequencing data

W Guo, P Zhu, M Pellegrini, MQ Zhang, X Wang… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Motivation DNA methylation is important for gene silencing and imprinting in both plants and
animals. Recent advances in bisulfite sequencing allow detection of single nucleotide …

circlncRNAnet: an integrated web-based resource for mapping functional networks of long or circular forms of noncoding RNAs

SM Wu, H Liu, PJ Huang, IYF Chang, CC Lee… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Despite their lack of protein-coding potential, long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs)
and circular RNAs (circRNAs) have emerged as key determinants in gene regulation, acting …

Challenges and perspectives in the epigenetics of climate change-induced forests decline

I García-García, B Méndez-Cea… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Forest tree species are highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. As sessile
organisms with long generation times, their adaptation to a local changing environment may …

Early microbial colonization affects DNA methylation of genes related to intestinal immunity and metabolism in preterm pigs

X Pan, D Gong, DN Nguyen, X Zhang, Q Hu… - DNA …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Epigenetic regulation may play an important role in mediating microbe–host interactions and
adaptation of intestinal gene expression to bacterial colonization just after birth. This is …

Bicycle: a bioinformatics pipeline to analyze bisulfite sequencing data

O Graña, H López-Fernández, F Fdez-Riverola… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
High-throughput sequencing of bisulfite-converted DNA is a technique used to measure
DNA methylation levels. Although a considerable number of computational pipelines have …

Tumor purity and differential methylation in cancer epigenomics

F Wang, N Zhang, J Wang, H Wu… - Briefings in functional …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification of DNA molecule that plays a vital role in
gene expression regulation. It is not only involved in many basic biological processes, but …

Integrating DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation data with the mint pipeline

RG Cavalcante, S Patil, Y Park, LS Rozek, MA Sartor - Cancer research, 2017 - AACR
DNA methylation (5mC) plays important roles in mammalian development, oncogenesis,
treatment response, and responses to the environment. DNA hydroxymethylation (5hmC) is …

[HTML][HTML] Uncovering Alterations in Cancer Epigenetics via Trans-Dimensional Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Hidden Markov Models

F Shokoohi, SH Khaniki - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Epigenetic alterations are key drivers in the development and progression of cancer.
Identifying differentially methylated cytosines (DMCs) in cancer samples is a crucial step …