Abstract
ATAC-seq (Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin using sequencing) has gained wide popularity as a fast, straightforward, and efficient way of generating genome-wide maps of open chromatin and guiding identification of active regulatory elements and inference of DNA protein binding locations. Given the ubiquity of this method, uniform and standardized methods for processing and assessing the quality of ATAC-seq datasets are needed. Here, we describe the data processing pipeline used by the ENCODE (Encyclopedia of DNA Elements) consortium to process ATAC-seq data into peak call sets and signal tracks and to assess the quality of these datasets.
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Kim, D.S. (2023). ATAC-seq Data Processing. In: Marinov, G.K., Greenleaf, W.J. (eds) Chromatin Accessibility. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2611. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2899-7_17
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