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author | bgruening |
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date | Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:12:07 -0500 |
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--- a/computeMatrix.xml Tue Feb 04 03:38:20 2014 -0500 +++ b/computeMatrix.xml Tue Feb 04 09:12:07 2014 -0500 @@ -194,23 +194,24 @@ **What it does** -This tool summarizes and prepares an intermediary file -containing scores associated with genomic regions that can be used +This tool prepares an intermediary file (a gzipped table of values) +that contains scores associated with genomic regions that can be used afterwards to plot a heatmap or a profile. Genomic regions can really be anything - genes, parts of genes, ChIP-seq peaks, favorite genome regions... as long as you provide a proper file -in BED or INTERVAL format. This tool can also be used to filter and sort -regions according to their score. +in BED or INTERVAL format. If you would like to compare different groups of regions +(i.e. genes from chromosome 2 and 3), you can supply more than 1 BED file, one for each group. + +computeMatrix can also be used to filter and sort +regions according to their score by making use of its advanced output options. .. image:: $PATH_TO_IMAGES/flowChart_computeMatrixetc.png :alt: Relationship between computeMatrix, heatmapper and profiler -You can find more details in the `computeMatrix wiki`_. - -.. _computeMatrix wiki: https://github.com/fidelram/deepTools/wiki/Visualizations#wiki-computeMatrix +You can find more details on the computeMatrix wiki page: https://github.com/fidelram/deepTools/wiki/Visualizations#wiki-computeMatrix -----