- Added a differentially methylated regions (DMR) functions that takes the output of the `diff_meth_pos` (DMP) function.
- DMP maps differences to chromosomes; DMR maps differences to specific genomic locii, and requires more processing.
- upgraded methylprep manifests to support both `old` and `new` genomic build mappings for all array types.
In general, you can supply a keyword argument (`genome_build='OLD'`) to change from the new build back to the old one.
- Illumina 27k arrays are still not supported, but mouse, epic, epic+, and 450k ARE supported.
(Genome annotation won't work with `mouse` array, only human builds.)
- DMP integrates the `combined-pvalues` package (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22954632/)
- DMP integrates with UCSC Genome (refGene) and annotates the genes near CpG regions.
- Annotation includes column(s) showing the tissue specific expression levels of relevant genes (e.g. `filter=blood`)
this function is also available with extended options as `methylize.filter_genes()`
- provides output BED and CSV files for each export into other genomic analysis tools
- `methylize.to_BED` will convert the diff_meth_pos() stats output into a standard BED file
(a tab separated CSV format with standardized, ordered column names)