Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)

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MACS performs model-based analysis of ChIP-Seq data generated by short read sequencers.

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We present Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq data, MACS, which analyzes data generated by short read sequencers such as Solexa's Genome Analyzer. MACS empirically models the shift size of ChIP-Seq tags, and uses it to improve the spatial resolution of predicted binding sites. MACS also uses a dynamic Poisson distribution to effectively capture local biases in the genome, allowing for more robust predictions. MACS compares favorably to existing ChIP-Seq peak-finding algorithms, and is freely available.

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): Genome Biol

Title: Genome Biology

Publisher: BioMed Central

ISSN (Print): 1465-6906

ISSN (Electronic): 1465-6914

Publication date (Print): 2008

Publication date (Electronic): 17 September 2008

Volume: 9

Issue: 9

Page: R137

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[1 ]Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA

[2 ]Division of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA

[3 ]Gene Security Network, Inc., 2686 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA 94063, USA

[4 ]Molecular Pathology Unit and Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, 13th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA

[5 ]Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA

[6 ]Department of Genetics, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

[7 ]Division of Biostatistics, Dan L Duncan Cancer Center, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA

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Publisher ID: gb-2008-9-9-r137

DOI: 10.1186/gb-2008-9-9-r137

PMC ID: 2592715

PubMed ID: 18798982

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This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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