Utilities to perform basic operations on BED files
The BEDTools utilities allow one to address common genomics tasks such as finding feature overlaps and computing coverage. The utilities are largely based on four widely-used file formats: BED, GFF/GTF, VCF, and SAM/BAM.
The BEDTools utilities allow one to address common genomics tasks such as finding feature overlaps and computing coverage. The utilities are largely based on four widely-used file formats: BED, GFF/GTF, VCF, and SAM/BAM.
To install bedtools, run the following command in macOS terminal (Applications->Utilities->Terminal)
sudo port install bedtools
To see what files were installed by bedtools, run:
port contents bedtools
To later upgrade bedtools, run:
sudo port selfupdate && sudo port upgrade bedtools
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