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An effective method to resolve ambiguous bisulfite-treated reads.

Mengya Liu1,2, Yun Xu3,4

  • 1School of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230027, Anhui, China.

BMC Bioinformatics
|May 28, 2021
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Summary

A new method, EM-MUL, accurately maps ambiguous bisulfite-treated sequencing reads (BS-reads) by resolving multireads. This improves methylation analysis resolution, especially in complex genomic regions.

Keywords:
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Area of Science:

  • Genomics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Epigenetics

Background:

  • Bisulfite sequencing combined with next-generation sequencing is key for DNA methylation analysis.
  • Aligning bisulfite-treated reads (BS-reads) is critical but challenging due to ambiguous multireads.
  • Existing methods struggle with multireads lacking overlap with uniquely mapped reads.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel method for accurately resolving multireads in BS-reads.
  • To improve the mapping of ambiguous BS-reads for downstream methylation analysis.
  • To enhance methylation resolution in repetitive genomic regions.

Main Methods:

  • Proposed EM-MUL, a novel method for multiread resolution in bisulfite sequencing.
  • EM-MUL utilizes overall coverage and base-level alignment for mapping.
  • Method validated on simulated and real bisulfite sequencing datasets.

Main Results:

  • EM-MUL successfully resolves multireads previously unaddressable by existing methods.
  • The method achieves high accuracy in determining the best mapping position for multireads.
  • Over 80% of multireads were accurately mapped in experimental benchmarks.

Conclusions:

  • EM-MUL effectively determines the optimal mapping position for multireads in BS-reads.
  • This method enhances methylation analysis resolution in repetitive genomic regions.
  • EM-MUL is freely available for public use.