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Table 1 Information on bisulfite conversion (BC) kits used during the testing of qBiCo-v1 method

From: qBiCo: a method to assess global DNA conversion performance in epigenetics via single-copy genes and repetitive elements

Kit No

Manufacturer

Kit name

Incubation protocol

1

Zymo Research

EZ DNA Methylation

14–16 h at 50 °C

2

Thermo Fisher Scientific

EpiJET BC

10 min at 98 °C /

150 min at 60 °C

3

Diagenode

Premium Bisulfite

8 min at 98 °C /

60 min at 54 °C

4

Promega

MethylEdge® BC System

8 min at 98 °C /

60 min at 54 °C

5

Sigma Aldrich

Imprint® DNA Modification

90 min at 65 °C

6

Qiagen

EpiTect Bisulfite

5 min at 95 °C /

25 min at 60 °C /

5 min at 95 °C /

85 min at 60 °C /

5 min at 95 °C /

175 min at 60 °C

7

Abcam

Fast BC

20 min at 95 °C

8

Analytik Jena

innuCONVERT

45 min at 85 °C

9

Epigentek

Methylamp DNA modification

90 min at 65 °C

10

Active Motif

BC

30 s at 95 °C /

20 min at 58 °C