Abstract
DNA methylation is an important regulator of gene transcription. WGBS is the gold-standard approach for base-pair resolution quantitative of DNA methylation. It requires high sequencing depth. Many CpG sites with insufficient coverage in the WGBS data, resulting in inaccurate DNA methylation levels of individual sites. Many state-of-arts computation methods were proposed to predict the missing value. However, many methods required either other omics datasets or other cross-sample data. And most of them only predicted the state of DNA methylation. In this study, we proposed the RcWGBS, which can impute the missing (or low coverage) values from the DNA methylation levels on the adjacent sides. Deep learning techniques were employed for the accurate prediction. The WGBS datasets of H1-hESC and GM12878 were down-sampled. The average difference between the DNA methylation level at 12× depth predicted by RcWGBS and that at >50× depth in the H1-hESC and GM2878 cells are less than 0.03 and 0.01, respectively. RcWGBS performed better than METHimpute even though the sequencing depth was as low as 12×. Our work would help to process methylation data of low sequencing depth. It is beneficial for researchers to save sequencing costs and improve data utilization through computational methods.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Sichuan Provincial Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars
Municipal Government of Quzhou
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
Foundation Project of Shenzhen Polytechnic
Special Project in Key Field of Department of Education of Guangdong Province
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subject
Computational Theory and Mathematics,Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience,Genetics,Molecular Biology,Ecology,Modeling and Simulation,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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