Bisulfighter: Accurate detection of methylated cytosines and differentially methylated regions

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Saito, Yutaka ^a,b   Tsuji, Junko ^c   Mituyama, Toutai ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE; SULFITES;

EID: 84898994435     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1373     Document Type: Article

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