Genome-wide base-resolution mapping of DNA methylation in single cells using single-cell bisulfite sequencing (scBS-seq)

Nature Protocols

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 534-547

  Clark, Stephen J ^a,e   Smallwood, Sébastien A ^a,d,e   Lee, Heather J ^a,b,d,e   Krueger, Felix ^a   Reik, Wolf ^a,b,c   Kelsey, Gavin ^a,c  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HYDROGEN SULFITE; SULFITE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CPG ISLAND; CYTOLYSIS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MAPPING; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE CELL BISULFITE SEQUENCING; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; GENOMICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; GENOMICS; MICE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; SULFITES;

EID: 85013827376     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2016.187     Document Type: Article

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