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ArticleComputational and structural biotechnology journal2020

HMST-Seq-Analyzer: A new python tool for differential methylation and hydroxymethylation analysis in various DNA methylation sequencing data.

Amna Farooq, Sindre Grønmyr, Omer Ali, Torbjørn Rognes, Katja Scheffler, Magnar Bjørås, Junbai Wang

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Article in Computational and structural biotechnology journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Amna FarooqDepartment of Pathology, Oslo University Hospital - Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
Sindre GrønmyrDepartment of Pathology, Oslo University Hospital - Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
Omer AliDepartment of Pathology, Oslo University Hospital - Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
Torbjørn RognesDepartment of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Katja SchefflerDepartment of Neuromedicine and Movement Science and Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Magnar BjøråsInstitute for Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Junbai WangDepartment of Pathology, Oslo University Hospital - Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
Oslo University Hospital · NONorwegian University of Science and Technology · NO

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DNA methylation (5mC) and hydroxymethylation (5hmC) are chemical modifications of cytosine bases which play a crucial role in epigenetic gene regulation. However, cost, data complexity and unavailability of comprehensive analytical tools is one of the major challenges in exploring these epigenetic marks. Hydroxymethylation-and Methylation-Sensitive Tag sequencing (HMST-seq) is one of the most cost-effective techniques that enables simultaneous detection of 5mC and 5hmC at single base pair resolution. We present HMST-Seq-Analyzer as a comprehensive and robust method for performing simultaneous differential methylation analysis on 5mC and 5hmC data sets. HMST-Seq-Analyzer can detect Differentially Methylated Regions (DMRs), annotate them, give a visual overview of methylation status and also perform preliminary quality check on the data. In addition to HMST-Seq, our tool can be used on whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) and reduced representation bisulfite sequencing (RRBS) data sets as well. The tool is written in Python with capacity to process data in parallel and is available at (https://hmst-seq.github.io/hmst/).

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Differential methylationHydroxy methylationHydroxymethylation-and methylation-sensitive tag sequencingMethylation analysisWhole genome bisulfite sequencing

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PMID33163148
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