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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2025

Whole Genome Methylation Sequencing via Enzymatic Conversion (EM-seq): Protocol, Data Processing, and Analysis.

Nelly N Olova, Simon Andrews

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Nelly N OlovaMRC Human Genetics Unit, MRC Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. nelly.olova@ed.ac.uk.
Simon AndrewsBioinformatics Group, Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK. simon.andrews@babraham.ac.uk.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Whole genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) has been the gold standard technique for base resolution analysis of DNA methylation for the last 15 years. It has been, however, associated with technical biases, which lead to overall overestimation of global and regional methylation values, and significant artifacts in extreme cytosine-rich DNA sequence contexts. Enzymatic conversion of cytosine is the newest approach, set to replace entirely the use of the damaging bisulfite conversion of DNA. The EM-seq technique utilizes TET2, T4-BGT, and APOBEC in a two-step conversion process, where the modified cytosines are first protected by oxidation and glucosylation, followed by deamination of all unmodified cytosines to uracil. As a result, EM-seq is degradation-free and bias-free, requires low DNA input, and produces high library yields with longer reads, little batch variation, less duplication, uniform genomic coverage, accurate methylation over a larger number of captured CpGs, and no sequence-specific artifacts.

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DNA MethylationSulfitesWhole Genome SequencingAPOBEC DeaminasesCpG IslandsCytosineDioxygenasesDNADNA-Binding ProteinsHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansProto-Oncogene ProteinsSequence Analysis, DNAAPOBEC DeaminasesCytosineDioxygenasesDNADNA-Binding Proteinshydrogen sulfiteProto-Oncogene ProteinsSulfitesAPOBECBismarkBS-seqDNA methylationEM-seqEnzymatic methylome sequencingNextflowSeqMonkT4-BGTTET2WGBS

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