Targeted bisulfite sequencing of the dynamic DNA methylome

Background The ability to measure DNA methylation precisely and efficiently continues to drive our understanding of this modification in development and disease. Whole genome bisulfite sequencing has the advantage of theoretically capturing all cytosines in the genome at single-nucleotide resolution, but it has a number of significant practical drawbacks that become amplified with increasing sample numbers. All other technologies capture only a fraction of the cytosines that show dynamic regulation across cell and tissue types.