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. 2013 Jan 22;9:640. doi: 10.1038/msb.2012.61

Table 1. The various NGS assays employed in the ENCODE project to annotate the human genome.

Feature Method Description Reference
  RNA-seq Isolate RNA followed by HT sequencing (Waern et al, 2011)
Transcripts, small RNA and transcribed regions CAGE HT sequencing of 5'-methylated RNA (Kodzius et al, 2006)
  RNA-PET CAGE combined with HT sequencing of poly-A tail (Fullwood et al, 2009c)
  ChIRP-Seq Antibody-based pull down of DNA bound to lncRNAs followed by HT sequencing (Chu et al, 2011)
  GRO-Seq HT sequencing of bromouridinated RNA to identify transcriptionally engaged PolII and determine direction of transcription (Core et al, 2008)
  NET-seq Deep sequencing of 3′ ends of nascent transcripts associated with RNA polymerase, to monitor transcription at nucleotide resolution (Churchman and Weissman, 2011)
  Ribo-Seq Quantification of ribosome-bound regions revealed uORFs and non-ATG codons (Ingolia et al, 2009)
       
Transcriptional machinery and protein–DNA interactions ChIP-seq Antibody-based pull down of DNA bound to protein followed by HT sequencing (Robertson et al, 2007)
  DNAse footprinting HT sequencing of regions protected from DNAse1 by presence of proteins on the DNA (Hesselberth et al, 2009)
  DNAse-seq HT sequencing of hypersensitive non-methylated regions cut by DNAse1 (Crawford et al, 2006)
  FAIRE Open regions of chromatin that is sensitive to formaldehyde is isolated and sequenced (Giresi et al, 2007)
  Histone modification ChIP-seq to identify various methylation marks (Wang et al, 2009a)
       
DNA methylation RRBS Bisulfite treatment creates C to U modification that is a marker for methylation (Smith et al, 2009)
Chromosome-interacting sites 5C HT sequencing of ligated chromosomal regions (Dostie et al, 2006)
  ChIA-PET Chromatin-IP of formaldehyde cross-linked chromosomal regions, followed by HT sequencing (Fullwood et al, 2009a)