MethBase

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{{infobox biodatabase

|title = MethBase

|logo =File:Database.png

|description = Database for single cytosine resolution DNA methylation data and associated annotations.

|scope =

|organism =Human
Chimpanzee
Gorilla
Rhesus Macaque
Mouse
Arabidopsis

|center =

|laboratory = Andrew D. Smith

|author =

|citation = Qiang Song et al. (2013)

|released = 2013

|standard =

|format = Trackhub on the UCSC Genome Browser

|url = http://smithlabresearch.org/software/methbase/

}}MethBase is a database of DNA methylation data derived from next-generation sequencing data.{{cite journal |last=Song|first=Qiang|author2=Decato Benjamin E |author3=Hong Elizabeth |author4=Zhou Meng |author5=Fang Fang |author6= Qu Jianghan |author7= Garvin Tyler |author8=Kessler Michael |author9= Zhou Jun |author10= Smith Andrew D |date=Dec 2013|title=A Reference Methylome Database and Analysis Pipeline to Facilitate Integrative and Comparative Epigenomics|journal = PLOS ONE|volume=8|issue=12|pages=e81148| pmid = 24324667|doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0081148| pmc = 3855694 |bibcode=2013PLoSO...881148S|doi-access=free}} MethBase provides a visualization of publicly available bisulfite sequencing and reduced representation bisulfite sequencing experiments through the UCSC Genome Browser. MethBase contents include single-CpG site resolution methylation levels for each CpG site in the genome of interest, annotation of regions of hypomethylation often associated with gene promoters, and annotation of allele-specific methylation associated with genomic imprinting.