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ReviewNature genetics2025

Profiling the epigenome using long-read sequencing.

Tianyuan Liu, Ana Conesa

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Review in Nature genetics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Tianyuan LiuInstitute for Integrative Systems Biology, Spanish National Research Council, Paterna, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-8561-6239
Ana ConesaInstitute for Integrative Systems Biology, Spanish National Research Council, Paterna, Spain. ana.conesa@csic.es.ORCID 0000-0001-9597-311X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The advent of single-molecule, long-read sequencing (LRS) technologies by Oxford Nanopore Technologies and Pacific Biosciences has revolutionized genomics, transcriptomics and, more recently, epigenomics research. These technologies offer distinct advantages, including the direct detection of methylated DNA and simultaneous assessment of DNA sequences spanning multiple kilobases along with their modifications at the single-molecule level. This has enabled the development of new assays for analyzing chromatin states and made it possible to integrate data for DNA methylation, chromatin accessibility, transcription factor binding and histone modifications, thereby facilitating comprehensive epigenomic profiling. Owing to recent advancements, alternative, nascent and translating transcripts can be detected using LRS approaches. This Review discusses LRS-based experimental and computational strategies for characterizing chromatin states and highlights their advantages over short-read sequencing methods. Furthermore, we demonstrate how various long-read methods can be integrated to design multi-omics studies to investigate the relationship between chromatin states and transcriptional dynamics.

Indexed as

Epigenesis, GeneticEpigenomeEpigenomicsHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingSequence Analysis, DNAAnimalsChromatinDNA MethylationHistonesHumansChromatinHistones

Identifiers

PMID39779955

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