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- Title
LiBis: an ultrasensitive alignment augmentation for low-input bisulfite sequencing.
- Authors
Yin, Yue; Li, Jia; Li, Jin; Lee, Minjung; Zhao, Sibo; Guo, Linlang; Li, Jianfang; Zhang, Mutian; Huang, Yun; Li, Xiao-Nan; Deng, Zhenzhong; Sun, Deqiang
- Abstract
The cell-free DNA (cfDNA) methylation profile in liquid biopsy has been utilized to diagnose early-stage disease and estimate therapy response. However, typical clinical procedures are capable of purifying only very small amounts of cfDNA. Whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) is the gold standard for measuring DNA methylation; however, WGBS using small amounts of fragmented DNA introduces a critical challenge for data analysis, namely a low-mapping ratio. The resulting low sequencing depth and low coverage of CpG sites genome-wide is a bottleneck for the clinical application of cfDNA-based WGBS assays. We developed LiBis (Low-input Bisulfite Sequencing), a novel method for low-input WGBS data alignment. By dynamically clipping initially unmapped reads and remapping clipped fragments, we judiciously rescued those reads and uniquely aligned them to the genome. By substantially increasing the mapping ratio by up to 88%, LiBis dramatically improved the number of informative CpGs and the precision in quantifying the methylation status of individual CpG sites. LiBis significantly improved the cost efficiency of low-input WGBS experiments by dynamically removing contamination introduced by random priming. The high sensitivity and cost effectiveness afforded by LiBis for low-input samples will allow the discovery of genetic and epigenetic features suitable for downstream analysis and biomarker identification using liquid biopsy.
- Subjects
CELL-free DNA; DNA methylation; COST effectiveness; BIOMARKERS; GLEASON grading system; DNA
- Publication
Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2021, Vol 22, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
1467-5463
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/bib/bbaa332