genomation

genomation provides functions to summarize, annotate, and integrate genomic interval data from diverse file types to extract biological insights from high-throughput sequencing datasets.


Key Features:

  • Versatile File Compatibility: Supports a wide range of genomic interval file types, including aligned reads from HT-seq experiments, transcription factor binding sites, methylation scores, and other chromosomal-positioned features.
  • Summarization and Annotation: Summarizes interval-based signals and annotates genomic features against provided genomic annotations.
  • Data Integration: Integrates multiple genomics datasets by handling overlapping intervals and consolidating information across formats.
  • Tabular Genomic Feature Processing: Efficiently processes tabular genomic feature data with a focus on genomic interval locations.

Scientific Applications:

  • Transcriptomics: Analyzing RNA-seq and other aligned-read data to identify gene expression patterns and regulatory element associations.
  • Epigenetics: Investigating methylation scores and other epigenomic signals to study their impact on gene regulation.
  • Genomic Annotation: Enhancing annotation of genomic features by integrating diverse interval-based datasets such as transcription factor binding sites.

Methodology:

Efficient processing of tabular genomic feature data by locating genomic intervals and performing summarization and annotation against provided genomic annotations.

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License:
Artistic-2.0
Tool Type:
command-line tool, library
Operating Systems:
Linux, Windows, Mac
Programming Languages:
R
Added:
1/17/2017
Last Updated:
1/10/2019

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Publications

Akalin A, Franke V, Vlahoviček K, Mason CE, Schübeler D. genomation: a toolkit to summarize, annotate and visualize genomic intervals. Bioinformatics. 2014;31(7):1127-1129. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu775. PMID:25417204.

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