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deepTools: NGS Data Analysis Toolkit

Overview

deepTools is a comprehensive suite of Python command-line tools designed for processing and analyzing high-throughput sequencing data. Use deepTools to perform quality control, normalize data, compare samples, and generate publication-quality visualizations for ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, MNase-seq, and other NGS experiments.

Core capabilities:

  • Convert BAM alignments to normalized coverage tracks (bigWig/bedGraph)
  • Quality control assessment (fingerprint, correlation, coverage)
  • Sample comparison and correlation analysis
  • Heatmap and profile plot generation around genomic features
  • Enrichment analysis and peak region visualization

When to Use This Skill

This skill should be used when:

  • File conversion: "Convert BAM to bigWig", "generate coverage tracks", "normalize ChIP-seq data"
  • Quality control: "check ChIP quality", "compare replicates", "assess sequencing depth", "QC analysis"
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