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ArticleNAR genomics and bioinformatics2021

PEPATAC: an optimized pipeline for ATAC-seq data analysis with serial alignments.

Jason P Smith, M Ryan Corces, Jin Xu, Vincent P Reuter, Howard Y Chang, Nathan C Sheffield

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Article in NAR genomics and bioinformatics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers.

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59citing papers in PubMed
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59 citing papers in PubMed, 85 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jason P SmithCenter for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, VA,22908, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2688-0988
M Ryan CorcesCenter for Personal Dynamic Regulomes, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94304, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7465-7652
Jin XuCenter for Personal Dynamic Regulomes, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94304, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0944-9835
Vincent P ReuterGenomics and Computational Biology Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, PA 19087, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7967-976X
Howard Y ChangCenter for Personal Dynamic Regulomes, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94304, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9459-4393
Nathan C SheffieldCenter for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, VA,22908, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5643-4068
Stanford University · USOffice of Public Health Genomics · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

A modular data analysis ecosystem using portable encapsulated projectsR35GM128636 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI SHEFFIELD, NATHAN · 2018 to 2022
$1.9M
Functional characterization of the Alzheimer's disease epigenomeK99AG059918 · NIA · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI CORCES, MICHAEL RYAN · 2018 to 2019
$251k
NIA NIH HHS K99 AG059918NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM128636
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As chromatin accessibility data from ATAC-seq experiments continues to expand, there is continuing need for standardized analysis pipelines. Here, we present PEPATAC, an ATAC-seq pipeline that is easily applied to ATAC-seq projects of any size, from one-off experiments to large-scale sequencing projects. PEPATAC leverages unique features of ATAC-seq data to optimize for speed and accuracy, and it provides several unique analytical approaches. Output includes convenient quality control plots, summary statistics, and a variety of generally useful data formats to set the groundwork for subsequent project-specific data analysis. Downstream analysis is simplified by a standard definition format, modularity of components, and metadata APIs in R and Python. It is restartable, fault-tolerant, and can be run on local hardware, using any cluster resource manager, or in provided Linux containers. We also demonstrate the advantage of aligning to the mitochondrial genome serially, which improves the accuracy of alignment statistics and quality control metrics. PEPATAC is a robust and portable first step for any ATAC-seq project. BSD2-licensed code and documentation are available at https://pepatac.databio.org.

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