Conserved Differentially Methylated Elements from One Generation
to the Next: Inheritance versus Randomness
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Authors
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Astrid Deschenes, Pascal Belleau and Arnaud Droit


Description
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The methylInheritance package implements a permutation analysis,
based on Monte Carlo sampling, for testing the hypothesis that
the number of conserved differentially methylated elements,
between several generations, is associated to an effect inherited
from a treatment and that stochastic effect can be dismissed.

The methylInheritance package is an official package of
Bioconductor.


Installation
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We strongly suggest to install the methylInheritance package
through Bioconductor:

http://bioconductor.org/packages/methylInheritance/

However, it is also possible to install the current github
version, through the help of the CRAN devtools package.

library(devtools)
install_github("adeschen/methylInheritance")

In addition, older versions of the package are available on
GitHub:

https://github.com/adeschen/methylInheritance/releases


Description of Package Functionality
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The vignette of the methylInheritance package, which is a
document that provides a task-oriented description of the package
functionality, is available on Bioconductor website:
https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/vignettes/methylInheritance/inst/doc/methylInheritance.html


License
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This package and the underlying methylInheritance code are
distributed under the Artistic license 2.0. You are free to use
and redistribute this software.

For more information on Artistic 2.0 License see:
http://opensource.org/licenses/Artistic-2.0


Bugs/Feature requests
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If you have any bugs or feature requests,
[let us know](https://github.com/adeschen/methylInheritance/issues).