deepTools: a flexible platform for exploring deep-sequencing data

F Ramírez, F Dündar, S Diehl, BA Grüning… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Nucleic acids research, 2014academic.oup.com
We present a Galaxy based web server for processing and visualizing deeply sequenced
data. The web server's core functionality consists of a suite of newly developed tools, called
deepTools, that enable users with little bioinformatic background to explore the results of
their sequencing experiments in a standardized setting. Users can upload pre-processed
files with continuous data in standard formats and generate heatmaps and summary plots in
a straight-forward, yet highly customizable manner. In addition, we offer several tools for the …
Abstract
We present a Galaxy based web server for processing and visualizing deeply sequenced data. The web server's core functionality consists of a suite of newly developed tools, called deepTools, that enable users with little bioinformatic background to explore the results of their sequencing experiments in a standardized setting. Users can upload pre-processed files with continuous data in standard formats and generate heatmaps and summary plots in a straight-forward, yet highly customizable manner. In addition, we offer several tools for the analysis of files containing aligned reads and enable efficient and reproducible generation of normalized coverage files. As a modular and open-source platform, deepTools can easily be expanded and customized to future demands and developments. The deepTools webserver is freely available at http://deeptools.ie-freiburg.mpg.de and is accompanied by extensive documentation and tutorials aimed at conveying the principles of deep-sequencing data analysis. The web server can be used without registration. deepTools can be installed locally either stand-alone or as part of Galaxy.
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