Genomic footprint detection
Project description
footprint-tools: de novo genomic footprint detection
footprint-tools is a python module for de novo detection of genomic footprints from DNase I data by simulating expected cleavage rates using a 6-mer DNase I cleavage preference model combined with density smoothing. Statistical significance of per-nucleotide cleavages are computed from a series emperically fit negative binomial distribution.
Requirements
footprint-tools
requires Python 3.6+
We also recommend these non-Python analysis tools:
Installation
To install the latest release, type:
pip install footprint-tools
If you run into errors, try installing footprint-tools in a conda environment (using the YAML file provided):
# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/jvierstra/footprint-tools.git
# Switch to devel branch; note that “master” branch is still “old” code
git checkout devel
# Create conda enviroment from config YAML file
cd footprint-tools
conda env create -f conda-env.yml
# Activate conda environment
conda activate footprint-tools
# Run commands
ftd --version
ftd {commands}
Documentation & usage
User manual, API and examples can be found here
Citation
Vierstra2020 Vierstra, J., Lazar, J., Sandstrom, R. et al. Global reference mapping of human transcription factor footprints. Nature 583, 729–736 (2020)
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