This is perfect, thanks!
I want to call peaks for a nucleosome density signal from the ENCODE dataset. Is it ok to use a package like MACS to do so, or are there underlying assumptions to such packages that I am overlooking?
Thanks!
EDIT: Upon further inspection, the data I want to call peaks for is in the .bigWig file format. Any way to call peaks on such a format? (i.e. converting it to a .bed file?)
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I'd take a look at this very recent publication (http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nbt.2596.html) which I haven't tried yet but am about to do.
check if the ones below are what you are looking for
http://code.google.com/p/danpos/ http://code.google.com/p/dantools/
Bioconductor packages http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/nucleR.html http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/PING.html
Very helpful, thanks!
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Why don't you want to use ENCODE's peak calls ?
As far as I can tell, peak calls are not published for the Nucleosome position dataset. (I'd love to be proven wrong, however!)