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Although several QC tools are available for next-generation sequencing data, most of them were not designed to handle QC issues specific to BS-seq protocols. Therefore, there is a strong need for a dedicated QC tool to evaluate and remove potential technical biases in BS-seq experiments.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: We developed a package named BSeQC to comprehensively evaluate the quality of BS-seq experiments and automatically trim nucleotides with potential technical biases that may result in inaccurate methylation estimation. BSeQC takes standard SAM\/BAM files as input and generates bias-free SAM\/BAM files for downstream analysis. Evaluation based on real BS-seq data indicates that the use of the bias-free SAM\/BAM file substantially improves the quantification of methylation level.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and implementation: BSeQC is freely available at: http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/bseqc\/.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0wl1@bcm.edu<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btt548","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,9,25]],"date-time":"2013-09-25T03:45:09Z","timestamp":1380080709000},"page":"3227-3229","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":46,"title":["BSeQC: quality control of bisulfite sequencing experiments"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"29","author":[{"given":"Xueqiu","family":"Lin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Bioinformatics, School of Life sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 20092, China, 2Dan L. 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