Resources for methylome analysis suitable for gene knockout studies of potential epigenome modifiers

GigaScience

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Wilson, Gareth A ^a   Dhami, Pawandeep ^a   Feber, Andrew ^a   Cortázar, Daniel ^b   Suzuki, Yuka ^a   Schulz, Reiner ^c   Schär, Primo ^b   Beck, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational pipeline; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Epigenomics; MeDIP seq; MeDUSA; Methylome

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876344321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2047217X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2047-217X-1-3     Document Type: Article

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