Yongjun Piao1,2, Seong Keon Lee3, Eun-Joon Lee1, Keith D Robertson4, Huidong Shi1,5, Keun Ho Ryu2, Jeong-Hyeon Choi1,6,7. 1. Cancer Center, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, GA, USA. 2. College of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea. 3. Department of Statistics, Sungshin Women's University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. 4. Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Center for Individualized Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. 5. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 6. Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, GA, USA. 7. Department of Applied Research, Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korea, Seocheon, Republic of Korea.
Abstract
Motivation: Chromatin accessibility plays a key role in epigenetic regulation of gene activation and silencing. Open chromatin regions allow regulatory elements such as transcription factors and polymerases to bind for gene expression while closed chromatin regions prevent the activity of transcriptional machinery. Recently, Methyltransferase Accessibility Protocol for individual templates-Bisulfite Genome Sequencing (MAPit-BGS) and nucleosome occupancy and methylome sequencing (NOMe-seq) have been developed for simultaneously profiling chromatin accessibility and DNA methylation on single molecules. Therefore, there is a great demand in developing computational methods to identify chromatin accessibility from MAPit-BGS and NOMe-seq. Results: In this article, we present CAME (Chromatin Accessibility and Methylation), a seed-extension based approach that identifies chromatin accessibility from NOMe-seq. The efficiency and effectiveness of CAME were demonstrated through comparisons with other existing techniques on both simulated and real data, and the results show that our method not only can precisely identify chromatin accessibility but also outperforms other methods. Availability and Implementation: CAME is implemented in java and the program is freely available online at http://sourceforge.net/projects/came/. Contacts: jechoi@gru.edu or khryu@dblab.chungbuk.ac.kr. Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Motivation: Chromatin accessibility plays a key role in epigenetic regulation of gene activation and silencing. Open chromatin regions allow regulatory elements such as transcription factors and polymerases to bind for gene expression while closed chromatin regions prevent the activity of transcriptional machinery. Recently, Methyltransferase Accessibility Protocol for individual templates-Bisulfite Genome Sequencing (MAPit-BGS) and nucleosome occupancy and methylome sequencing (NOMe-seq) have been developed for simultaneously profiling chromatin accessibility and DNA methylation on single molecules. Therefore, there is a great demand in developing computational methods to identify chromatin accessibility from MAPit-BGS and NOMe-seq. Results: In this article, we present CAME (Chromatin Accessibility and Methylation), a seed-extension based approach that identifies chromatin accessibility from NOMe-seq. The efficiency and effectiveness of CAME were demonstrated through comparisons with other existing techniques on both simulated and real data, and the results show that our method not only can precisely identify chromatin accessibility but also outperforms other methods. Availability and Implementation: CAME is implemented in java and the program is freely available online at http://sourceforge.net/projects/came/. Contacts: jechoi@gru.edu or khryu@dblab.chungbuk.ac.kr. Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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