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deepTools: a flexible platform for exploring deep-sequencing data

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Ramírez, Fidel, Dündar, Friederike, Diehl, Sarah, Grüning, Björn A., Manke, Thomas·2014·Nucleic Acids Research

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We present a Galaxy based web server for processing and visualizing deeply sequenced data. The web server's core functionality consists of a suite of newly developed tools, called deepTools, that enable users with little bioinformatic background to explore the results of their sequencing experiments in a standardized setting. Users can upload pre-processed files with continuous data in standard formats and generate heatmaps and summary plots in a straight-forward, yet highly customizable manner. In addition, we offer several tools for the analysis of files containing aligned reads and enable efficient and reproducible generation of normalized coverage files. As a modular and open-source platform, deepTools can easily be expanded and customized to future demands and developments. The deepTools webserver is freely available at http://deeptools.ie-freiburg.mpg.de and is accompanied by extensive documentation and tutorials aimed at conveying the principles of deep-sequencing data analysis. The web server can be used without registration. deepTools can be installed locally either stand-alone or as part of Galaxy.

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Authors
Ramírez, F., Dündar, F., Diehl, S., Grüning, B. A., & Manke, T.
Affiliations
  • Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (DE)
  • University of Freiburg (DE)
Corresponding author
Manke, Thomas
Venue
Nucleic Acids Research
Published
2014-05-05
Volume
42
Issue
W1
Pages
W187-W191
ISSN
  • 0305-1048 (ISSN-L)
  • 1362-4962
OpenAlex
W2158789637
Cited by
3,738
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31.87
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journal article
Language
en
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Funders
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB 992)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
Keywords
read mapping, heatmaps, data visualization, open-source bioinformatics software, reproducible analysis
MeSH terms
Computer Graphics, Software, Internet, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing

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