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Table 2 Detected cytosine positions relative to the genome-wide cytosine positions per five biological replicates of the control line and the LR2 epiline (fourth selfing) discriminated by restriction endonuclease combination and cytosine context (CG, CHG and CHH)

From: Plant-RRBS, a bisulfite and next-generation sequencing-based methylome profiling method enriching for coverage of cytosine positions

Group of biological replicates

Restriction endonuclease combination

Detected cytosine positions in genome

CG

CHG

CHH

C (%)

Union (collection of all covered positions in at least one replicate)

Control

MspI-DpnII

18,507,834

15,887,099

58,570,249

52.0

LR2

MspI-DpnII

19,434,811

16,678,896

61,436,046

54.6

Control

MspI-ApeKI

15,715,023

12,901,771

42,018,210

39.5

LR2

MspI-ApeKI

14,573,921

12,185,636

39,744,568

37.2

Intersection (common positions in all replicates)

Control

MspI-DpnII

6,459,314

5,448,976

19,305,085

17.5

LR2

MspI-DpnII

8,023,858

7,435,066

29,372,103

25.1

Control

MspI-ApeKI

7,053,953

6,410,114

19,063,516

18.2

LR2

MspI-ApeKI

5,454,292

5,509,874

15,910,607

15.0

Jaccard indexa (proportion of common on all detected positions)

  

(%)

(%)

(%)

(%)

Control

MspI-DpnII

34.9

34.3

33.0

33.6

LR2

MspI-DpnII

41.3

44.6

47.8

46.0

Control

MspI-ApeKI

44.9

49.7

45.4

46.1

LR2

MspI-ApeKI

37.4

45.2

40.0

40.4

  1. a Jaccard index or Jaccard similarity coefficient = intersection / union