EpiSAFARI: sensitive detection of valleys in epigenetic signals for enhancing annotations of functional elements.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Functional genomics experiments generate genomewide signal profiles that are dense information sources for annotating the regulatory elements. These profiles measure epigenetic activity at the nucleotide resolution and they exhibit distinctive patterns as they fluctuate along the genome. Most notable of these patterns are the valley patterns that are prevalently observed in assays such as ChIP Sequencing and bisulfite sequencing. The genomic positions of valleys pinpoint locations of cis-regulatory elements such as enhancers and insulators. Systematic identification of the valleys provides novel information for delineating the annotation of regulatory elements. Nevertheless, the valleys are not reported by majority of the analysis pipelines.

Results

We describe Ep

SUBMITTER: Harmanci A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7703766 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature