Hi Hunter,

What specific track(s) are you looking at?

- Greg

On 6/11/12 1:10 PM, Hunter Richards wrote:
> When I zoom in and click on a peak in a track I get something like this:
>
> *Position: *chr1:137,313,656-137,313,838
> *Total Bases in view: *183
> *Statistics on:* 183 *items covering* 183 bases (100.00% coverage)
> *Average item spans* 1.00 *bases.*
> *Average value* 169631 *min* 4280 *max* 404000 *standard deviation *141420
>
> if I zoom out a bit I might see something like this:
>
> *Position: *chr1:137,304,597-137,322,896
> *Total Bases in view: *18,300
> *Statistics on:* 284 *items covering* 284 bases (1.55% coverage)
> *Average item spans* 1.00 *bases.*
> *Average value* 109629 *min* 10.1 *max* 404000 *standard deviation *139315
>
> How can I interpret this? This is a wig track. I'd like to know how to
> describe the Y-axis to someone. This is ChIP-seq data, so, can I
> deduce/approximate how many reads mapped to this region with this info (if
> I know the read length)? I know Illumina's peak-caller/browser allows me to
> toggle the Y-axis scale between total reads, total bases, and average base
> coverage.
>
> Thanks,
> -hunter
>
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