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- Title
A flexible ChIP-sequencing simulation toolkit.
- Authors
Zheng, An; Lamkin, Michael; Qiu, Yutong; Ren, Kevin; Goren, Alon; Gymrek, Melissa
- Abstract
Background: A major challenge in evaluating quantitative ChIP-seq analyses, such as peak calling and differential binding, is a lack of reliable ground truth data. Accurate simulation of ChIP-seq data can mitigate this challenge, but existing frameworks are either too cumbersome to apply genome-wide or unable to model a number of important experimental conditions in ChIP-seq. Results: We present ChIPs, a toolkit for rapidly simulating ChIP-seq data using statistical models of key experimental steps. We demonstrate how ChIPs can be used for a range of applications, including benchmarking analysis tools and evaluating the impact of various experimental parameters. ChIPs is implemented as a standalone command-line program written in C++ and is available from https://github.com/gymreklab/chips. Conclusions: ChIPs is an efficient ChIP-seq simulation framework that generates realistic datasets over a flexible range of experimental conditions. It can serve as an important component in various ChIP-seq analyses where ground truth data are needed.
- Subjects
STATISTICAL models; C++; STATISTICS; QUANTITATIVE research
- Publication
BMC Bioinformatics, 2021, Vol 22, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1471-2105
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s12859-021-04097-5