Includes cutting-edge techniques for the study of epigenome editing

Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results

Contains key implementation advice from the experts

Editing the Epigenome: Overview, Open Questions, and Directions of Future Development.- Zinc Fingers, TALEs and CRISPR Systems: A Comparison of Tools for Epigenome Editing.- Designing Epigenome Editors: Considerations of Biochemical and Locus Specificities.- Generation of TALE-Based Designer Epigenome Modifiers.- Neuroepigenetic Editing.- Allele-Specific Epigenome Editing.- Key to Delivery: The (Epi-)Genome Editing Vector Toolbox.- CRISPR/dCas9 Switch Systems for Temporal Transcriptional Control.- Delivery of Designer Epigenome Modifiers into Primary Human T Cells.- Viral Expression of Epigenome Editing Tools in Rodent Brain Using Stereotaxic Surgery Techniques.- Stable Expression of Epigenome Editors Via Viral Delivery and Genomic Integration.- Purified-Protein Delivery to Activate an Epigenetically-Silenced Allele in Mouse Brain.- Non-Viral Methodology for Efficient Co-Transfection.- Chromatin Immunoprecipitation in Human and Yeast Cells.- Chromatin Immunoprecipitation and High Throughput Sequencing (ChIP-Seq): Tips and Tricks Regarding the Laboratory Protocol and Initial Downstream Data Analysis.- Generation of Whole Genome Bisulfite Sequencing Libraries for Comprehensive DNA Methylome Analysis.- Approaches for the Analysis and Interpretation of Whole Genome Bisulfite Sequencing Data.- Whole Genome Bisulfite Sequencing for the Analysis of Genome-Wide DNA Methylation and Hydroxymethylation Patterns at Single-Nucleotide Resolution.- Locus-Specific DNA Methylation Analysis by Targeted Deep Bisulfite Sequencing.- DNA Methylation Analysis by Bisulfite Conversion Coupled to Double Multiplexed Amplicon-Based Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS).- Cell-to-Cell Transcription Variability as Measured by Single Molecule RNA FISH to Detect Epigenetic State Switching.- Establishment of Cell Lines Stably Expressing dCas-Fusions to Address Kinetics of Epigenetic Editing.- Editing of DNA Methylation Using dCas9-Peptide Repeat and scFv-TET1 Catalytic Domain Fusions.- Chemical Inducible dCas9-Guided Editing of H3K27 Acetylation in Mammalian Cells.- Screening Regulatory Element Function with CRISPR/Cas9-Based Epigenome Editing.