GUAVA: A Graphical User Interface for the Analysis and Visualization of ATAC-seq Data. 2018

Mayur Divate, and Edwin Cheung
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, Macau.

Assay for Transposase Accessible Chromatin with high-throughput sequencing (ATAC-seq) is a powerful genomic technology that is used for the global mapping and analysis of open chromatin regions. However, for users to process and analyze such data they either have to use a number of complicated bioinformatic tools or attempt to use the currently available ATAC-seq analysis software, which are not very user friendly and lack visualization of the ATAC-seq results. Because of these issues, biologists with minimal bioinformatics background who wish to process and analyze their own ATAC-seq data by themselves will find these tasks difficult and ultimately will need to seek help from bioinformatics experts. Moreover, none of the available tools provide complete solution for ATAC-seq data analysis. Therefore, to enable non-programming researchers to analyze ATAC-seq data on their own, we developed a tool called Graphical User interface for the Analysis and Visualization of ATAC-seq data (GUAVA). GUAVA is a standalone software that provides users with a seamless solution from beginning to end including adapter trimming, read mapping, the identification and differential analysis of ATAC-seq peaks, functional annotation, and the visualization of ATAC-seq results. We believe GUAVA will be a highly useful and time-saving tool for analyzing ATAC-seq data for biologists with minimal or no bioinformatics background. Since GUAVA can also operate through command-line, it can easily be integrated into existing pipelines, thus providing flexibility to users with computational experience.

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