@article{Sharim01042019,
author = {Sharim, Hila and Grunwald, Assaf and Gabrieli, Tslil and Michaeli, Yael and Margalit, Sapir and Torchinsky, Dmitry and Arielly, Rani and Nifker, Gil and Juhasz, Matyas and Gularek, Felix and Almalvez, Miguel and Dufault, Brandon and Chandra, Sreetama Sen and Liu, Alexander and Bhattacharya, Surajit and Chen, Yi-Wen and Vilain, Eric and Wagner, Kathryn R. and Pevsner, Jonathan and Reifenberger, Jeff and Lam, Ernest T. and Hastie, Alex R. and Cao, Han and Barseghyan, Hayk and Weinhold, Elmar and Ebenstein, Yuval}, 
title = {Long-read single-molecule maps of the functional methylome},
volume = {29}, 
number = {4}, 
pages = {646-656}, 
year = {2019}, 
doi = {10.1101/gr.240739.118}, 
abstract ={We report on the development of a methylation analysis workflow for optical detection of fluorescent methylation profiles along chromosomal DNA molecules. In combination with Bionano Genomics genome mapping technology, these profiles provide a hybrid genetic/epigenetic genome-wide map composed of DNA molecules spanning hundreds of kilobase pairs. The method provides kilobase pair–scale genomic methylation patterns comparable to whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) along genes and regulatory elements. These long single-molecule reads allow for methylation variation calling and analysis of large structural aberrations such as pathogenic macrosatellite arrays not accessible to single-cell second-generation sequencing. The method is applied here to study facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), simultaneously recording the haplotype, copy number, and methylation status of the disease-associated, highly repetitive locus on Chromosome 4q.}, 
URL = {http://genome.cshlp.org/content/29/4/646.abstract}, 
eprint = {http://genome.cshlp.org/content/29/4/646.full.pdf+html}, 
journal = {Genome Research} 
}