Lee et al.</a>, "This information is important because such ‘phased’ methylation states can inform us about the epigenetic diversity of cell populations as well as the local regulation states of the epigenome".
Probably the simplest visual description of methylation entropy is the following, a version of which appears in many of the methods papers:</p>
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