Average

The average function will average multiple bigwig files into a single bigwig file.

Example

Example command using only required flags:

maxatac average -i *.bw -n IMR-90

Example command using all flags:

maxatac average -i *.bw -n IMR-90 -o ./test -c chr1 -cs hg38.chrom.sizes

Required Arguments

-i

The input bigwig files. You could use a *.bw wildcard to make a list of bigwig files as input or provide the path to each file.

-n, --name, --prefix

The name string used to build the output filename. The extension .bw will be added to the filename.

Optional Arguments

-cs, --chrom_sizes, --chromosome_sizes

The chromosome sizes file for the reference genome used during alignment. The current default is set for hg38.

-c, --chroms, --chromosomes

The chromosomes that are averaged together and written to output. Only the chromosomes in this list will be written to the output file. The current default list of chromosomes are restricted to the autosomal chromosomes:

chr1 chr2 chr3 chr4 chr5 chr6 chr7 chr8 chr9 chr10 chr11 chr12 chr13 chr14 chr15 chr16 chr17 chr18 chr19 chr20 chr21 chr22

-o, --output, --output_dir

The output directory. If the output directory is not supplied the file will be created in the current working directory.

--loglevel

Set the logging level. Currently, the only working logging level is ERROR.