methylPipe and compEpiTools: A suite of R packages for the integrative analysis of epigenomics data

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Kishore, Kamal ^a   de Pretis, Stefano ^a   Lister, Ryan ^b,c   Morelli, Marco J ^a   Bianchi, Valerio ^a   Amati, Bruno ^a,d   Ecker, Joseph R ^c,e   Pelizzola, Mattia ^a,c  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^e HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Epigenomics; High throughput sequencing; Histone marks; Integrative biology

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATION; BINS; DNA; GENE ENCODING; GENES; METHYLATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; THROUGHPUT; TRANSCRIPTION;

DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HISTONE MARKS; INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY;

DATA INTEGRATION;

DNA; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HISTONE CODE; INTERNET; METABOLISM;

CPG ISLANDS; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HISTONE CODE; INTERNET; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84942524925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-015-0742-6     Document Type: Article

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