BayesPeak swMATH ID: 18843 Software Authors: Cairns, Jonathan M.; Spyrou, Christiana; Stark, Rory; Smith, Mike L.; Lynch, Andy G.; Tavaré, Simon Description: BayesPeak - an R package for analysing chip-seq data. Motivation: Identification of genomic regions of interest in ChIP-seq data, commonly referred to as peak-calling, aims to find the locations of transcription factor binding sites, modified histones or nucleosomes. The BayesPeak algorithm was developed to model the data structure using Bayesian statistical techniques and was shown to be a reliable method, but did not have a full-genome implementation. Results: In this note we present BayesPeak, an R package for genome-wide peak-calling that provides a flexible implementation of the BayesPeak algorithm and is compatible with downstream BioConductor packages. The BayesPeak package introduces a new method for summarizing posterior probability output, along with methods for handling overfitting and support for parallel processing. We briefly compare the package with other common peak-callers. Availability: Available as part of BioConductor version 2.6. URL: http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/BayesPeak.html Homepage: http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/BayesPeak.html Dependencies: R Related Software: HPeak; FindPeaks; DEGseq; edgeR; R; deepTools2; ChromHMM; ModHMM; GitHub; COUNT; Velvet; ARACHNE; SpliceTrap; DWE; CLIPZ; mirTools; miRExpress; TargetSpy; miRNAkey; PatMaN Cited in: 4 Publications all top 5 Cited by 14 Authors 1 Alhaji, Baba B. 1 Aransay, Ana M. 1 Benner, Philipp 1 Dai, Hongsheng 1 Hackenberg, Michael 1 Harrison, Andrew P. 1 Hayashi, Yoshiko 1 Lausen, Berthold 1 Ranciati, Saverio 1 Rodríguez-Ezpeleta, Naiara 1 Vinciotti, Veronica 1 Vingron, Martin 1 Viroli, Cinzia 1 Wit, Ernst C. Cited in 2 Serials 1 Journal of Applied Statistics 1 Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology Cited in 3 Fields 3 Biology and other natural sciences (92-XX) 2 Statistics (62-XX) 1 General and overarching topics; collections (00-XX) Citations by Year