BEDTools.bamtobed (v1) BETA

This module is currently in beta release. The module and/or documentation may be incomplete.

Convert BAM alignments to BED format.

Author: Chet Birger, Broad Institute

Contact: gp-help@broadinstitute.org

Algorithm Version:

Introduction

BEDTools.bamtobed is a conversion utility that converts sequence alignments in BAM format into BED and/or BEDPE records. 

References

BEDTools bamtobed online documentation

Parameters

Name Description
input file * BAM file (-i)
edit distance  Convert BAM alignments to BED format using the BAM edit distance (NM) as the BED score. (-ed)
convert to bedpe  Convert BAM alignments to BEDPE (paired-end BED) format. (-bedpe)
additional command line options  Module will append these options to BEDTools bedtobam command line. See documentation for supported options.
output filename * Output filename

* - required

Input Files

  1. input file
    BAM file to be converted to BED format

Output Files

  1. output filename
    Resulting BED-formatted file.

Platform Dependencies

Task Type:
ChIP-Seq

CPU Type:
any

Operating System:
any

Language:
C++

Version Comments

Version Release Date Description
1 2013-12-12 Initial version