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Determining the epigenome using DNA alone

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A computational method predicts epigenomic marks and DNA methylation patterns from DNA sequence.

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Figure 1: Potential experiment for cell type–specific epigenome editing.

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  1. Coby Viner and Michael M. Hoffman are in the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, and Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,

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  2. Michael M. Hoffman is also in the Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,

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Viner, C., Hoffman, M. Determining the epigenome using DNA alone. Nat Methods 12, 191–192 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3291

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