What problem does it solve?
It helps you analyze high-throughput sequencing (NGS) experiments by converting alignment outputs into normalized tracks, running quality control, and generating publication-ready QC and visualization figures without manual tool juggling.
Core Features & Use Cases
- BAM to normalized coverage generation: Converts BAM alignments into bigWig/bedGraph coverage suitable for genome browser viewing and downstream analysis.
- NGS quality control and comparison: Performs correlation, PCA, fingerprinting, coverage assessment, and fragment-size checks to diagnose dataset quality and replicate consistency.
- Heatmaps, profiles, and enrichment visualizations: Builds computeMatrix outputs and renders heatmaps/profiles around TSS or other genomic features, plus enrichment/peak-region visualizations.
- Core workflows by experiment type: Supports common ChIP-seq, RNA-seq (including strand-specific coverage), and ATAC-seq workflows (including Tn5 offset correction).
- Operational guardrails and best practices: Guides correct normalization choices (RPGC/CPM/RPKM/BPM) and important parameter warnings such as not extending reads for RNA-seq.
Quick Start
Use the Skill to validate your BAM, bigWig, and BED inputs first, then generate a ChIP-seq QC workflow template and run it to produce correlation/PCA/coverage/fingerprint outputs.