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CellMethMarker provides an integrated database of human cell- and tissue-type-specific DNA methylation markers

Cell- and tissue-type-specific DNA methylation markers provide epigenetic signatures of cellular identity and are widely used to infer cellular origin from bulk and single-cell methylomes. Existing resources mainly emphasize disease-associated biomarkers, methylome atlases, genomic annotations or RNA-based cell markers, leaving an unmet need for an integrated region-level resource dedicated to…

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Fire, smoke and statesmanship

When choking transboundary haze pushed Singapore and Indonesia to the brink of an economic and diplomatic standoff, pragmatic leadership proved that following the money trail—not nationalist…

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