Table 1 Comparison of Drop-BS with other single-cell bisulfite sequencing techniques

From: Droplet-based bisulfite sequencing for high-throughput profiling of single-cell DNA methylomes

 

Mapping efficiency

Throughput by one operator

Unique reads per cell (sequencing depth per cell)

CpGs covered per cell

Bisulfite conversion rate

Drop-BS

65%

10,000 cells in 2 days

41,013 (231,382)

24,230

99%

snmC-seq

55%

384 cells per wellplate

1.7 M

(6.9 M)

1.7 M

99%

sciMET

60%

500–700 cells per experiment

186,710 (755,529)

162,045

99%

sciMET v2

69%

1000 cells per experiment

3.1 M

(4.9 M)

2.2 M

99%

scBS-seq

20%

44 cells sequenced in the paper

3.0 M

(19.4 M)

3.7 M

98.5%