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  • Heisman
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 534

    #1

    Is there thorough documentation for MACS2 anywhere?

    Hey all,

    I've looked around but haven't found anything outside of the google group.There are multiple papers for the first version of MACS but for the second version that includes other commands such as "bdgpeakcall" I cannot find documentation anywhere explaining what they do/how they work/what to consider when adjusting parameters, etc. Am I missing something obvious?
  • turnersd
    Senior Member
    • May 2011
    • 115

    #2
    No paper that I've seen. See https://github.com/taoliu/MACS/

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    • Heisman
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 534

      #3
      Yeah, I found that and this was nice too: https://github.com/taoliu/MACS/wiki/Build-Signal-Track

      Just as a guy who's new to peak calling a lot of the terminology is a bit foreign and I fear I'll miss something obvious without a better understanding of what's going on. I did find this paper, which was useful in interpreting the model MACS2 puts out: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22955991

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