The database contains currently methylation patterns, profiles and total methylation content data for 46 species, 160 tissues and 72 phenotypes coming from a total of 6667 experiments (as of September 4, 2002). About 14% of the data have not been published elsewhere.
These data can be conveniently searched and represented in different ways.
An on-line submission tool permits the scientific public to directly enter new data into MethDB.