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Bam To Wig With Fixed Step?

How can I convert a bam file to a wig fixedStep of step=1?

I found this answer, but it creates a variableStep instead of a fixedStep: http://biostar.stackexchange.com/questions/10592/convert-bam-to-wig

samtools bam wiggle
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I wrote a tool *named bam2wig for this job. It is relased in my experimental package "variation toolkit" and uses the samtools API. see

http://code.google.com/p/variationtoolkit/source/browse/trunk/src/bam2wig.cpp

and

http://code.google.com/p/variationtoolkit/wiki/Bam2wig

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