Project description:We performed whole genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) of five human prostate cell lines in order to establish their 5mC profile, with the goals of generating a dataset for comparison to multiple epigenetic and transcriptome analyses done for the same lines.
Project description:Whole genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) of the NA18507 (Yoruba) lymphoblastoid cell line high resolution methylome of one cell type
Project description:Whole Genome Bisulfite Sequencing (WGBS) is the current standard for DNA methylation profiling; however, WGBS is costly as it requires sequencing coverage over the entire genome. Here we introduce Anchor-Based Bisulfite Sequencing (ABBS). We show that ABBS captures accurate DNA methylation information in Escherichia coli and mammalian cells, while requiring approximately 20 times fewer sequencing reads than WGBS. The ABBS protocol is simple and can be performed in a single day.
Project description:The development of whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) has led to a number of exciting discoveries about how genomes utilize DNA methylation and has led to a plethora of novel testable hypotheses. Methods for constructing sodium bisulfite-converted and amplified libraries have recently excelled to the point that the bottleneck for experiments that use WGBS has shifted to data analysis and interpretation. Here we present empirical evidence for an over-representation of methylated DNA from WGBS. This enrichment for methylated DNA is exacerbated by higher cycles of PCR and is influenced by the type of uracil-insensitive DNA polymerase used for amplifying the sequencing library. Future efforts to computationally correct for this enrichment bias will be essential to increasing the accuracy of determining methylation levels for individual cytosines. MethylC-Seq of Arabidopsis thaliana