Created by Aaron Quinlan Spring 2009.
For example, bedtools allows one to intersect, merge, count, complement, and shuffle genomic intervals from multiple files in widely-used genomic file formats such as BAM, BED, GFF/GTF, VCF. While each individual tool is designed to do a relatively simple task (e.g., intersect two interval files), quite sophisticated analyses can be conducted.
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Stable releases: http://code.google.com/p/bedtools
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Repository: https://github.com/arq5x/bedtools
Released under GNU public license version 2 (GPL v2).
Summary
BEDTools is a collection of utilities for comparing, summarizing, andintersecting genomic features in BED, GTF/GFF, VCF and BAM formats.
Manual
See the extensive PDF manual included at: http://code.google.com/p/bedtools/downloads/detail?name=BEDTools-User-Manual.v4.pdf.
This manual covers many common usage examples. There are also examples available at:http://code.google.com/p/bedtools/wiki/Usagehttp://code.google.com/p/bedtools/wiki/UsageAdvanced
Installation
Git
git clone git://github.com/arq5x/bedtools.git
User Manual Pdf
Download tarball - that big gray button on the upper right.
- Unpack the source downloaded tarball.
- cd into the expanded folder.
- Type 'make' and hit enter.
- If you encountered no errors, then bedtools should now be in bin/
If not, try to troubleshoot then email me: aaronquinlan at gmail dot com
Bed Tools User-manual.v4.pdf Free
- Run the test suite with: 'make test'
- Copy the files in bin/ to ~/bin or if you have the privileges, to /usr/local/bin. Make sure that the directory to which you copy the tools is in your $PATH
- Use the tools.