Illumina Infinium Methylation BeadChip System

**Semantic type:** Molecular Biology Research Technique

**Definition:** A platform that leverages bisulfite conversion with proprietary high-throughput silica beads on a chip microarray libraries, sequencing technology and sequence analysis tools developed by Illumina to analyze genome- and epigenome-wide DNA methylation at single nucleotide resolution.

**Synonyms:** - Illumina Infinium Methylation BeadChip Assay System - Illumina Methylation - Illumina Methylation Assay System - Infinium Methylation BeadChip System