Title
Mapping Short Sequence Reads to a Reference Genome
UMMS Affiliation
Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Publication Date
2-1-2017
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Bioinformatics | Computational Biology
Abstract
This protocol describes mapping short sequence reads to a reference genome using several programs. The example in this protocol starts with a ChIP-seq data set in FASTQ format, aligns the reads to the human genome using Bowtie, and uses some useful utilities of SAMtools and BEDTools. SAMtools and BEDTools are two collections of executables for manipulating the results of short-read aligners. By combining these tools, one can summarize and visualize alignments produced by Bowtie and perform basic analysis, such as determining the number of reads that are mapped to a certain gene. These tools can also be easily incorporated into computational pipelines of more complex analyses.
DOI of Published Version
10.1101/pdb.prot093161
Source
Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2017 Feb 1;2017(2):pdb.prot093161. doi: 10.1101/pdb.prot093161. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Cold Spring Harbor protocols
Related Resources
PubMed ID
27574204
Repository Citation
Hung, Jui-Hung and Weng, Zhiping, "Mapping Short Sequence Reads to a Reference Genome" (2017). Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology Publications and Presentations. 99.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/bioinformatics_pubs/99