Colin Farrell1, Sagi Snir2, Matteo Pellegrini3. 1. Department of Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 2. Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel. 3. Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Abstract
SUMMARY: Epigenetic rates of change, much as evolutionary mutation rate along a lineage, vary during lifetime. Accurate estimation of the epigenetic state has vast medical and biological implications. To account for these non-linear epigenetic changes with age, we recently developed a formalism inspired by the Pacemaker model of evolution that accounts for varying rates of mutations with time. Here, we present a python implementation of the Epigenetic Pacemaker (EPM), a conditional expectation maximization algorithm that estimates epigenetic landscapes and the state of individuals and may be used to study non-linear epigenetic aging. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The EPM is available at https://pypi.org/project/EpigeneticPacemaker/ under the MIT license. The EPM is compatible with python version 3.6 and above.
SUMMARY: Epigenetic rates of change, much as evolutionary mutation rate along a lineage, vary during lifetime. Accurate estimation of the epigenetic state has vast medical and biological implications. To account for these non-linear epigenetic changes with age, we recently developed a formalism inspired by the Pacemaker model of evolution that accounts for varying rates of mutations with time. Here, we present a python implementation of the Epigenetic Pacemaker (EPM), a conditional expectation maximization algorithm that estimates epigenetic landscapes and the state of individuals and may be used to study non-linear epigenetic aging. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The EPM is available at https://pypi.org/project/EpigeneticPacemaker/ under the MIT license. The EPM is compatible with python version 3.6 and above.
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