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Daria Meyer
dblp:428/3583
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0000-0003-2006-4610ORCID · reported
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Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Bioinformatics and computational biology · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bioinformatics and computational biology › epigenomics › DNA methylation
DNA methylation analysis |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | diffMONT : predicting methylation-specific PCR biomarkers based on nanopore sequencing data for clinical application · Bioinform. 2026 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology › sequence analysis
nanopore sequencing |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | diffMONT : predicting methylation-specific PCR biomarkers based on nanopore sequencing data for clinical application · Bioinform. 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
nanopore sequencing · 1.0differential methylation region prediction · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | diffMONT : predicting methylation-specific PCR biomarkers based on nanopore sequencing data for clinical applicationabstractMOTIVATION: DNA methylation serves as a key biomarker in clinical diagnostics, especially in cancer detection. With methylation-specific PCR (MSP), a widely used approach, patient samples can be screened fast and efficiently for differential methylation. During MSP, methylated regions are selectively amplified with specific primers. With nanopore sequencing, knowledge about DNA methylation is generated during direct DNA sequencing without needing pretreatment of the DNA. Multiple methods, mainly developed for whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) data, exist to predict differentially methylated regions (DMRs) in the genome. However, the predicted DMRs are often very large and not sufficiently discriminating to generate meaningful results in MSP, creating a gap between theoretical cancer marker research and practical application, as no tool currently provides methylation difference predictions tailored for PCR-based diagnostics. RESULTS: Here, we present diffMONT, a tool that predicts differentially methylated regions specifically suited for MSP primer design, enabling rapid translation into practical applications. diffMONT takes into account (i) the specific length of primer and amplicon regions, (ii) the fact that one condition should be unmethylated, and (iii) a minimal required amount of differentially methylated cytosines within the primer regions. We compared the results of diffMONT to metilene and DSS based on a publicly available nanopore sequencing dataset and show that the regions predicted by diffMONT are more specific toward hypermethylated regions. diffMONT accelerates the design of methylation-specific diagnostic assays, bridging the gap between theoretical research and clinical application. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The source code for diffMONT, an open-source Python-based tool, is available at https://github.com/rnajena/diffMONT/, with an archived release under https://zenodo.org/records/17641031. Daria Meyer, Emanuel Barth, Laura Wiehle, Manja Marz |
Bioinform. | 1 |