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How to know the mm9 genome size?

When I use MACS2 to do peakcalling, i need to know genome size(gsize), and I use mm9. How I can know that? Thanks!

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updated by igor igor • written by mikysyc2016 mikysyc2016

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this link may help

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written by lakhujanivijay lakhujanivijay

For MACS, genome size is already precompiled for common species. No need to do extra work. You can use mm for mouse.

This is explained in more depth in the documentation.

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written by igor igor

macs2 -g mm is what you need.

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