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Migrated tool version 0.0.1 from old tool shed archive to new tool shed repository
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date | Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:25:46 -0400 |
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1 Convert a BAM file into a BigWig coverage file. This can be used directly from | |
2 Galaxy for display at UCSC. The advantage over standard Wiggle format is that | |
3 the data is stored in a compressed format and can be retrieved by genome | |
4 region. This allows you to view regions of arbitrarily large Wiggle file data | |
5 at UCSC while avoiding the upload costs. | |
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7 The latest version of the bam_to_wiggle.py script is available at: | |
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9 https://github.com/chapmanb/bcbb/blob/master/nextgen/scripts/bam_to_wiggle.py | |
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11 This requires: | |
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13 Python2, version 2.6 or better | |
14 pysam (http://code.google.com/p/pysam/) | |
15 wigToBigWig from UCSC (http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/) |