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Nature Biotechnology 27, 341–342 (1 April 2009) | doi:10.1038/nbt0409-341

Locking in on the human methylome

Benjamin P Berman , Daniel J Weisenberger & Peter W Laird

Next-generation sequencing is rapidly transforming many areas of biological science, and the study of DNA methylation is no exception. Indeed, genome-wide methylation profiling with bisulfite sequencing has already been achieved for Arabidopsis thaliana.