title: MethTools--a toolbox to visualize and analyze DNA methylation data.
abstract: The Bisulfite Genomic Sequencing technique has found wide acceptance for the generation of DNA-methylation maps with single-base resolution. The method is based on the selective deamination of cytosine to uracil (and subsequent conversion to thymine via PCR), whereas 5-methylcytosine residues remain unchanged. Methylation maps are created by the comparison of bisulfite converted sequences with the untreated genomic sequence. 'MethTools' is a collection of software tools that replaces the time-consuming manual comparison process, generates graphical outputs of methylation patterns and methyl-ation density, estimates the systematic error of the experiment and searches for conserved methylated nucleotide patterns. The programs are written in Perl 5 and C, and the source code can be downloaded. All tools run independently but the programs are interfaced. Thus, a script can perform the entire analysis procedure automatically. In addition, a web-based remote analysis service is offered. Both the source code and the remote analysis are available at http://genome.imb-jena.de/methtools/
authors.affiliation: Department of Genome Analysis, Institute for Molecular Biotechnology, Beutenbergstrasse 11, D-07745 Jena, Germany.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Grunau
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schattevoy
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mache
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rosenthal
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019175:DNA Methylation; D006801:Humans; D012984:Software; D013223:Statistics as Topic