BisQC: An operational pipeline for multiplexed bisulfite sequencing

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Chen, Gary G ^a   Diallo, Alpha B ^a   Poujol, Raphaël ^a   Nagy, Corina ^a   Staffa, Alfredo ^b   Vaillancourt, Kathryn ^a   Lutz, Pierre Eric ^a   Ota, Vanessa K ^a   Mash, Deborah C ^c   Turecki, Gustavo ^a,b   Ernst, Carl ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Bisulfite sequencing; DNA methylation

Indexed keywords

DNA; HYDROGEN SULFITE; PRIMER DNA; SULFITE;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA LIBRARY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIPLEXED BISULFITE SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUALITY CONTROL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; VALIDITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFITES;

EID: 84899926466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-290     Document Type: Article

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