BioMethyl: an R package for biological interpretation of DNA methylation data.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

The accumulation of publicly available DNA methylation datasets has resulted in the need for tools to interpret the specific cellular phenotypes in bulk tissue data. Current approaches use either single differentially methylated CpG sites or differentially methylated regions that map to genes. However, these approaches may introduce biases in downstream analyses of biological interpretation, because of the variability in gene length. There is a lack of approaches to interpret DNA methylation effectively. Therefore, we have developed computational models to provide biological interpretation of relevant gene sets using DNA methylation data in the context of The Cancer Genome Atlas.

Results

We illustrate that Biological interpretation of DNA Methylation (BioMethyl) u

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6761945 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature