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ArticleFrontiers in bioinformatics2022

MethylMasteR: A Comparison and Customization of Methylation-Based Copy Number Variation Calling Software in Cancers Harboring Large Scale Chromosomal Deletions.

Michael P Mariani, Jennifer A Chen, Ze Zhang, Steven C Pike, Lucas A Salas

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Article in Frontiers in bioinformatics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  1. Methods in DNA methylation array dataset analysis: A review.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2024
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Michael P MarianiGeisel School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States.
Jennifer A ChenGeisel School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States.
Ze ZhangGeisel School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States.
Steven C PikeGeisel School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States.
Lucas A SalasGeisel School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States.
Dartmouth College · US

Funding

Relation Between In-utero Vitamin D and Immune Function in Early Childhood P20GM104416 · NIGMS · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI KARAGAS, MARGARET RITA · 2013 to 2022
$23.7M
Training Program for Quantitative Population Sciences in CancerT32CA134286 · NCI · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI KARAGAS, MARGARET RITA, TOSTESON, TOR D · 2020 to 2024
$1.5M
NCI NIH HHS T32 CA134286NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM104416
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DNA methylation-based copy number variation (CNV) calling software offers the advantages of providing both genetic (copy-number) and epigenetic (methylation) state information from a single genomic library. This method is advantageous when looking at large-scale chromosomal rearrangements such as the loss of the short arm of chromosome 3 (3p) in renal cell carcinoma and the codeletion of the short arm of chromosome 1 and the long arm of chromosome 19 (1p/19q) commonly seen in histologically defined oligodendrogliomas. Herein, we present MethylMasteR: a software framework that facilitates the standardization and customization of methylation-based CNV calling algorithms in a single R package deployed using the Docker software framework. This framework allows for the easy comparison of the performance and the large-scale CNV event identification capability of four common methylation-based CNV callers. Additionally, we incorporated our custom routine, which was among the best performing routines. We employed the Affymetrix 6.0 SNP Chip results as a gold standard against which to compare large-scale event recall. As there are disparities within the software calling algorithms themselves, no single software is likely to perform best for all samples and all combinations of parameters. The employment of a standardized software framework via creating a Docker image and its subsequent deployment as a Docker container allows researchers to efficiently compare algorithms and lends itself to the development of modified workflows such as the custom workflow we have developed. Researchers can now use the MethylMasteR software for their methylation-based CNV calling needs and follow our software deployment framework. We will continue to refine our methodology in the future with a specific focus on identifying large-scale chromosomal rearrangements in cancer methylation data.

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clear cell renal cell carcinomacopy number variationDNA methylationepigeneticsgenomicskidney cancermethylmastermultiomics

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