Identification of active regulatory regions from DNA methylation data
Burger, Lukas ; Gaidatzis, Dimos ; Schübeler, Dirk ; Stadler, Michael B.
In: Nucleic Acids Research, 2013, vol. 41, no. 16, p. e155-e155
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- We have recently shown that transcription factor binding leads to defined reduction in DNA methylation, allowing for the identification of active regulatory regions from high-resolution methylomes. Here, we present MethylSeekR, a computational tool to accurately identify such footprints from bisulfite-sequencing data. Applying our method to a large number of published human methylomes, we demonstrate its broad applicability and generalize our previous findings from a neuronal differentiation system to many cell types and tissues. MethylSeekR is available as an R package at www.bioconductor.org