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Analysis of High-Throughput RNA Bisulfite Sequencing Data

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Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 1562))

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Methylation of the 5-cytosine (m5C) is a common but not well-understood RNA modification, which can be detected by sequencing of bisulfite-treated transcripts (RNA-BSseq). In this Chapter, we discuss computational RNA-BSseq data analysis methods for transcriptome-wide identification and quantification of m5C.

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    Dietmar Rieder & Francesca Finotello

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Rieder, D., Finotello, F. (2017). Analysis of High-Throughput RNA Bisulfite Sequencing Data. In: Lusser, A. (eds) RNA Methylation. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1562. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6807-7_10

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