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For instance, an appropriate pipeline to detect DNA methylation differences between cancer and control samples is still required.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results: We propose an algorithm that detects significantly differentially methylated regions in data obtained by targeted bisulfite sequencing approaches, such as reduced representation bisulfite sequencing. In a first step, this approach tests all target regions for methylation differences by taking spatial dependence into account. A false discovery rate procedure controls the expected proportion of incorrectly rejected regions. In a second step, the significant target regions are trimmed to the actually differentially methylated regions. This hierarchical procedure detects differentially methylated regions with increased power compared with existing methods.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Availability: R\/Bioconductor package BiSeq.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Contact: \u00a0katja.hebestreit@uni-muenster.de<\/jats:p><jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btt263","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,5,9]],"date-time":"2013-05-09T00:53:51Z","timestamp":1368060831000},"page":"1647-1653","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":234,"title":["Detection of significantly differentially methylated regions in targeted bisulfite sequencing data"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"29","author":[{"given":"Katja","family":"Hebestreit","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Martin","family":"Dugas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Hans-Ulrich","family":"Klein","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,5,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023062614243964400_btt263-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"R87","DOI":"10.1186\/gb-2012-13-10-r87","article-title":"methylKit: a comprehensive r package for the analysis of genome-wide DNA methylation profiles","volume":"13","author":"Akalin","year":"2012","journal-title":"Genome Biol."},{"key":"2023062614243964400_btt263-B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1272","DOI":"10.1198\/016214507000000941","article-title":"False discovery rates for spatial signals","volume":"102","author":"Benjamini","year":"2007","journal-title":"J. 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