B-SOLANA: an approach for the analysis of two-base encoding bisulfite sequencing data.

Kreck, Benjamin; Marnellos, George; Richter, Julia; Krueger, Felix; Siebert, Reiner; Franke, Andre · Bioinformatics · 2012

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Bisulfite sequencing, a combination of bisulfite treatment and high-throughput sequencing, has proved to be a valuable method for measuring DNA methylation at single base resolution. Here, we present B-SOLANA, an approach for the analysis of two-base encoding (colorspace) bisulfite sequencing data on the SOLiD platform of Life Technologies. It includes the alignment of bisulfite sequences and the determination of methylation levels in CpG as well as non-CpG sequence contexts. B-SOLANA enables a fast and accurate analysis of large raw sequence datasets. The source code, released under the GNU GPLv3 licence, is freely available at http://code.google.com/p/bsolana/. b.kreck@ikmb.uni-kiel.de Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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