{{onesource|date=May 2017}} {{infobox biodatabase |title = MethBase |logo =File:Database.png |description = Database for single cytosine resolution DNA methylation data and associated annotations. |scope = |organism =Human<br/>Chimpanzee<br/>Gorilla<br/>Rhesus Macaque<br/>Mouse<br/>Arabidopsis |center = |laboratory = Andrew D. Smith |author = |citation = Qiang Song et al. (2013) <ref name="pmid24324667"/> |released = 2013 |standard = |format = Trackhub on the UCSC Genome Browser |url = http://smithlabresearch.org/software/methbase/ }}'''MethBase''' is a database of DNA methylation data derived from next-generation sequencing data.<ref name="pmid24324667">{{cite journal |last=Song|first=Qiang|author2=Decato Benjamin E |author3=Hong Elizabeth |author4=Zhou Meng |author5=Fang Fang |author6= Qu Jianghan |author7= Garvin Tyler |author8=Kessler Michael |author9= Zhou Jun |author10= Smith Andrew D |date=Dec 2013|title=A Reference Methylome Database and Analysis Pipeline to Facilitate Integrative and Comparative Epigenomics|journal = PLOS ONE|volume=8|issue=12|article-number=e81148| pmid = 24324667|doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0081148| pmc = 3855694 |bibcode=2013PLoSO...881148S|doi-access=free}}</ref> MethBase provides a visualization of publicly available bisulfite sequencing and reduced representation bisulfite sequencing experiments through the UCSC Genome Browser. MethBase contents include single-CpG site resolution methylation levels for each CpG site in the genome of interest, annotation of regions of hypomethylation often associated with gene promoters, and annotation of allele-specific methylation associated with genomic imprinting.
==See also== * DNA methylation * MethDB * NGSmethDB
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==External links== * http://smithlabresearch.org/software/methbase
Category:Genetics databases Category:Epigenetics Category:DNA Category:DNA sequencing
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