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MethFinder - A software package for prediction of human tissue-specific methylation status of CpG islands.

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DNA methylation, the highly studied epigenetic mechanism which is involved in the regulatory events of various cellular processes like chromatin structure modifications, chromosomal inactivation, gene expressional patterns, embriyonic developments and transcriptional modification etc. Various high throughput techniques evolved for direct detection of methylation actions as well as information across the entire region. However, despite high throughput technological advances in experimental field, the development of software tools that has been dedicated to the prediction of epigenetic information from specific genome sequences is warranted. To this end we developed a tissue specific classifier MethFinder based on the frequency of novel sequence patterns across nine human tissues that was capable of discriminating methylation prone and methylation resistant CpG islands with an overall accuracy of 93%.

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MethFinder is freely available at www.rgcb.res.in/methfinder.

SUBMITTER: James P

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3563418 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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MethFinder - A software package for prediction of human tissue-specific methylation status of CpG islands.

James Priyanka P Girijadevi Reshmi R Charles Sona S Pillai M Radhakrishna MR

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<h4>Unlabelled</h4>DNA methylation, the highly studied epigenetic mechanism which is involved in the regulatory events of various cellular processes like chromatin structure modifications, chromosomal inactivation, gene expressional patterns, embriyonic developments and transcriptional modification etc. Various high throughput techniques evolved for direct detection of methylation actions as well as information across the entire region. However, despite high throughput technological advances in ...[more]

PMID: 23390346

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Project description:BACKGROUND: The computational prediction of DNA methylation has become an important topic in the recent years due to its role in the epigenetic control of normal and cancer-related processes. While previous prediction approaches focused merely on differences between methylated and unmethylated DNA sequences, recent experimental results have shown the presence of much more complex patterns of methylation across tissues and time in the human genome. These patterns are only partially described by a binary model of DNA methylation. In this work we propose a novel approach, based on profile analysis of tissue-specific methylation that uncovers significant differences in the sequences of CpG islands (CGIs) that predispose them to a tissue- specific methylation pattern. RESULTS: We defined CGI methylation profiles that separate not only between constitutively methylated and unmethylated CGIs, but also identify CGIs showing a differential degree of methylation across tissues and cell-types or a lack of methylation exclusively in sperm. These profiles are clearly distinguished by a number of CGI attributes including their evolutionary conservation, their significance, as well as the evolutionary evidence of prior methylation. Additionally, we assess profile functionality with respect to the different compartments of protein coding genes and their possible use in the prediction of DNA methylation. CONCLUSION: Our approach provides new insights into the biological features that determine if a CGI has a functional role in the epigenetic control of gene expression and the features associated with CGI methylation susceptibility. Moreover, we show that the ability to predict CGI methylation is based primarily on the quality of the biological information used and the relationships uncovered between different sources of knowledge. The strategy presented here is able to predict, besides the constitutively methylated and unmethylated classes, two more tissue specific methylation classes conserving the accuracy provided by leading binary methylation classification methods.

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MethFinder - A software package for prediction of human tissue-specific methylation status of CpG islands.

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MethFinder - A software package for prediction of human tissue-specific methylation status of CpG islands.

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