Accurate targeted long-read DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation sequencing with TAPS.
Liu Y., Cheng J., Siejka-Zielińska P., Weldon C., Roberts H., Lopopolo M., Magri A., D'Arienzo V., Harris JM., McKeating JA., Song C-X.
We present long-read Tet-assisted pyridine borane sequencing (lrTAPS) for targeted base-resolution sequencing of DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation in regions up to 10 kb from nanogram-level input. Compatible with both Oxford Nanopore and PacBio Single-Molecule Real-Time (SMRT) sequencing, lrTAPS detects methylation with accuracy comparable to short-read Illumina sequencing but with long-range epigenetic phasing. We applied lrTAPS to sequence difficult-to-map regions in mouse embryonic stem cells and to identify distinct methylation events in the integrated hepatitis B virus genome.