GLINT: a user-friendly toolset for the analysis of high-throughput DNA-methylation array data

Bioinformatics. 2017 Jun 15;33(12):1870-1872. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx059.

Abstract

Summary: GLINT is a user-friendly command-line toolset for fast analysis of genome-wide DNA methylation data generated using the Illumina human methylation arrays. GLINT, which does not require any programming proficiency, allows an easy execution of Epigenome-Wide Association Study analysis pipeline under different models while accounting for known confounders in methylation data.

Availability and implementation: GLINT is a command-line software, freely available at https://github.com/cozygene/glint/releases . It requires Python 2.7 and several freely available Python packages. Further information and documentation as well as a quick start tutorial are available at http://glint-epigenetics.readthedocs.io .

Contact: elior.rahmani@gmail.com or ehalperin@cs.ucla.edu.

MeSH terms

  • DNA Methylation*
  • Epigenomics / methods*
  • Genome, Human
  • Humans
  • Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / methods
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA / methods*
  • Software*