bedtools multicov not running
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Bnf83 ▴ 150

Hi guys, I'm trying to count the number of reads per gene (RNA Seq analysis) to perform the gene expression analysis. I'm using: bedtools multicov -bams my_file.bam -bed Human_genes.bed > gene_counts.txt Strangely, the gene_counts.txt file is exactly equal to the Human_genes.bed file. Since no Error or Warning message is generated I don't know how to deal with this issue. Does anyone have experience of this kind of error?

Thanks in advance

RNA-Seq bedtools multicov gene expression • 3.2k views
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Because you are giving it a bed file, it will tell you how many regions from that bed file are in the bam file and it seems like you have all of them.

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Yes, you' re right, but as from here: http://bedtools.readthedocs.org/en/latest/content/tools/multicov.html I expect the count of alignments but this does not appear in the output file.

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what bedtools version you are using?

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I'm using bedtools v2.16.1

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ariel.balter ▴ 260

I'm having the same issue. Is it a problem with the format of the input files? If you figure it out, post the answer!

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