PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Moudgil, Arnav
AU  - Li, Daofeng
AU  - Hsu, Silas
AU  - Purushotham, Deepak
AU  - Wang, Ting
AU  - Mitra, Robi David
TI  - The qBED track: a novel genome browser visualization for point processes
AID  - 10.1101/2020.04.27.060061
DP  - 2020 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 2020.04.27.060061
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/04/29/2020.04.27.060061.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/04/29/2020.04.27.060061.full
AB  - Summary: Transposon calling cards is a genomic assay for identifying transcription factor binding sites in both bulk and single cell experiments. Here we describe the qBED format, an open, text-based standard for encoding and analyzing calling card data. In parallel, we introduce the qBED track on the WashU Epigenome Browser, a novel visualization that enables researchers to inspect calling card data in their genomic context. Finally, through examples, we demonstrate that qBED files can be used to visualize non-calling card datasets, such as CADD scores and GWAS hits, and may have broad utility to the genomics community. Availability and Implementation: The qBED track is available on the WashU Epigenome Browser (http://epigenomegateway.wustl.edu/browser), beginning with version 50.3.6. Source code for the WashU Epigenome Browser with qBED support is available on GitHub (http://github.com/arnavm/eg-react and http://github.com/lidaof/eg-react). We have also released a tutorial on how to upload qBED data to the browser (dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.bca8ishw).Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.