tileGenome?

Michael, making us do a prototype in R is a very reasonable request.  We
should do that.

Best,
Kasper


On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Tim Triche, Jr. <tim.tri...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Doesn't tileGenome or whatever it's called help with the binning?  It's
> not too hard to bolt multiple tracks into a SummarizedExperiment at that
> point.
>
> --t
>
> > On Nov 18, 2013, at 4:33 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen <
> kasperdanielhan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > (Michael Love and I had some discussion on this Friday)
> >
> > I also think it would be a very convenient class/method.  A lot of data
> > these days are naturally represented (and are available from say GEO) as
> > bigWig files (essentially coverage tracks), for example ChIP-seq.  This
> > would be much more efficient than converting BAM to coverage on the fly.
> >
> > It seems to me that bigWig ought to be efficient for this, but I am not
> > very familiar with its performance.  What we want is really to be able to
> > chunk multiple coverage profiles over the genome, and do computations on
> > each of the chunks.  Any idea on efficiency?  I am happy to contribute a
> > bit, at least with design.
> >
> > Best,
> > Kasper
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Michael Lawrence <
> lawrence.mich...@gene.com
> >> wrote:
> >
> >> Aggregating coverage over multiple samples is a popular request
> recently.
> >> I'm happy to support this effort, but I thinks someone in Seattle is
> going
> >> to have to take the lead on it.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Michael Love
> >> <michaelisaiahl...@gmail.com>wrote:
> >>
> >>> a discussion came up on devel last year about looking at a genomic
> range
> >>> over multiple samples and multiple experiments (
> >>
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/attachments/20120920/93a4fb61/attachment.pl
> >>> )
> >>>
> >>> stepping aside the multiple experiment part, I'm interested in
> >>> BigWigViews() with fixed ranges across samples. Has there been any more
> >>> thoughts in this direction?
> >>>
> >>> BigWigViews would be incredibly useful for genomics applications where
> we
> >>> want to scan along the genome looking at lots of samples. BigWig
> offers a
> >>> concise representation of the information compared to BAM files.
> >>>
> >>> What I am trying now is using import(BigWigFile, which=gr) on files one
> >> by
> >>> one, and then binding the coverage together.
> >>>
> >>> best,
> >>>
> >>> Mike
> >>>
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