Collapse two or thee bed files into one bed file using bedtools merge

Question

[mropri]

I have a 4 bed files of peak coordinates from ChIP seq, I was wondering is there a way to collapse them into one bed file where all the peak coordinates are now in one bed file from the 4 different files using bedtools merge. And if there is a way what would the command look like. Appreciate any help.

Answer 1

[ATpoint]

cat bed1.bed bed2.bed bedn.bed (...) | sort -k1,1 -k2,2n | bedtools merge -i - > merged.bed

[ATpoint]

Next time please please use the search function:

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[mropri]

Thank you so much. This is what I was looking for and appreciate your quick response. I did try looking at the documentation of the bedtools merge but was a little confused. Thanks again!