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Identifying single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) is important for quantification of methylation levels and for study of allele-specific epigenetic events such as imprinting. However, SNP calling in such data is complex and time consuming. Here, we present an ultrafast and memory-efficient package named BS-SNPer for the exploration of SNP sites from BS-Seq data. Compared with Bis-SNP, a popular BS-Seq specific SNP caller, BS-SNPer is over 100 times faster and uses less memory. BS-SNPer also offers higher sensitivity and specificity compared with existing methods.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and implementation: BS-SNPer is written in C++ and Perl, and is freely available at https:\/\/github.com\/hellbelly\/BS-Snper.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: bolund@biomed.au.dk, kdso@clin.au.dk or orntoft@ki.au.dk<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btv507","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,8,29]],"date-time":"2015-08-29T01:23:36Z","timestamp":1440811416000},"page":"4006-4008","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":84,"title":["BS-SNPer: SNP calling in bisulfite-seq data"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"31","author":[{"given":"Shengjie","family":"Gao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark,"},{"name":"2 BGI Co. 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