Charting differentially methylated regions in cancer with Rocker-meth

Matteo Benelli et al. present Rocker-meth, a new Hidden Markov Model (HMM)-based method, to robustly identify differentially methylated regions (DMRs). They use Rocker-meth to analyse more than 6000 methylation profiles across 14 cancer types, providing a catalog of tumor-specific and shared DMRs.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Matteo Benelli, Gian Marco Franceschini, Alberto Magi, Dario Romagnoli, Chiara Biagioni, Ilenia Migliaccio, Luca Malorni, Francesca Demichelis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-11-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02761-3