MIRA: An R package for DNA methylation-based inference of regulatory activity.

Summary DNA methylation contains information about the regulatory state of the cell. MIRA aggregates genome-scale DNA methylation data into a DNA methylation profile for independent region sets with shared biological annotation. Using this profile, MIRA infers and scores the collective regulatory activity for each region set. MIRA facilitates regulatory analysis in situations where classical regulatory assays would be difficult and allows public sources of open chromatin and protein binding regions to be leveraged for novel insight into the regulatory state of DNA methylation datasets. Availability R package available on Bioconductor: http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/MIRA.html. Contact [email protected].