cyberneticlibrary

Build chromatin accessibility maps

accessibility-aggregationskillsetup L235
ammawla/encode-toolkit
What it does

Aggregate chromatin accessibility peaks across experiments

Best for

Building comprehensive open chromatin maps from multiple ATAC-seq and DNase-seq experiments.

Inputs
  • · narrowPeak BED files list
  • · ENCODE experiment accessions
  • · Tissue/cell-type filter
Outputs
  • · Union peak set BED
  • · Quality metrics CSV
  • · Aggregation report
Requires
  • · bedtools
  • · ENCODE REST API
  • · ENCODE Blacklist v2
Preconditions
  • · GRCh38/hg38 assembly consistent
  • · Valid narrowPeak format
Failure modes
  • · Mixed assemblies
  • · Missing peaks
  • · Blacklist region overlap
Trust signals
  • · Corces et al. 2017 (733 citations)
  • · ENCODE Blacklist Amemiya 2019