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Putting epigenome comparison into practice

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Comparative analysis of epigenomes offers new opportunities to understand cellular differentiation, mutation effects and disease processes. But the scale and heterogeneity of epigenetic data present numerous computational challenges.

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Figure 1: A proposed cyberinfrastructure for epigenome analysis and comparison.

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