NGSmethDB: an updated genome resource for high quality, single-cytosine resolution methylomes Geisen, Stefanie Barturen, Guillermo Alganza, Ángel M. Hackenberg , Michael Oliver, José Luis NGSmethDB Genome Single-cytosine resolution methylomes The updated release of ‘NGSmethDB’ (http://bioinfo2.ugr.es/NGSmethDB) is a repository for single-base whole-genome methylome maps for the best-assembled eukaryotic genomes. Short-read data sets from NGS bisulfite-sequencing projects of cell lines, fresh and pathological tissues are first pre-processed and aligned to the corresponding reference genome, and then the cytosine methylation levels are profiled. One major improvement is the application of a unique bioinformatics protocol to all data sets, thereby assuring the comparability of all values with each other. We implemented stringent quality controls to minimize important error sources, such as sequencing errors, bisulfite failures, clonal reads or single nucleotide variants (SNVs). This leads to reliable and high-quality methylomes, all obtained under uniform settings. Another significant improvement is the detection in parallel of SNVs, which might be crucial for many downstream analyses (e.g. SNVs and differential-methylation relationships). A next-generation methylation browser allows fast and smooth scrolling and zooming, thus speeding data download/upload, at the same time requiring fewer server resources. Several data mining tools allow the comparison/retrieval of methylation levels in different tissues or genome regions. NGSmethDB methylomes are also available as native tracks through a UCSC hub, which allows comparison with a wide range of third-party annotations, in particular phenotype or disease annotations. 2014-10-07T08:23:16Z 2014-10-07T08:23:16Z 2014 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Geisen, S.; et al. NGSmethDB: an updated genome resource for high quality, single-cytosine resolution methylomes. Nucleic Acids Research, 42(1): 53-59 (2014). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/33365] 1362-4962 0305-1048 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/33365 10.1093/nar/gkt1202 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License Oxford University Press