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| author | bgruening |
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| date | Tue, 06 Aug 2013 08:20:47 -0400 |
| parents | 21d563d5f2b2 |
| children | c5847db0cb41 |
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--- a/bamCorrelate.xml Mon Aug 05 11:36:11 2013 -0400 +++ b/bamCorrelate.xml Tue Aug 06 08:20:47 2013 -0400 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <tool id="bamCorrelate" name="bamCorrelate" version="1.0.1"> - <description>corrlates pairs of bam files</description> + <description>correlates pairs of BAM files</description> <requirements> <requirement type="package" version="1.5.1_59e067cce039cb93add04823c9f51cab202f8c2b">deepTools</requirement> </requirements> @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ <param name="includeZeros" type="boolean" truevalue="--includeZeros" falsevalue="" label ="Include zeros" - help ="If set, then zero counts that happen for *all* bam files given are included. The default behavior is to ignore those cases" /> + help ="If set, then regions with zero counts for *all* BAM files given are included. The default behavior is to ignore those cases" /> </when> </conditional> @@ -156,15 +156,18 @@ **What it does** -Genomes are split into bins of given length. For each bin the number of reads -found for each of the bam files is counted. A correlation is computed for all -pairs of bam files. +This tool is useful to assess the overall similarity of different BAM files. A typical application +is to check the correlation between replicates or published data sets. + +The tool splits the genomes are into bins of given length. For each bin, the number of reads +found in each BAM file is counted and a correlation is computed for all +pairs of BAM files. ----- .. class:: infomark -Please acknowledge that this tool **is still in development** and we will be very happy to receive feedback from the users. If you run into any trouble please sent an email to `Fidel Ramirez`_. +If you would like to give us feedback or you run into any trouble, please sent an email to deeptools@googlegroups.com This tool is developed by the `Bioinformatics and Deep-Sequencing Unit`_ at the `Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics`_.
