CoCAS: a ChIP-on-chip analysis suite.

Touati Benoukraf (1) , Pierre Cauchy (2) , Romain Fenouil (1) , Adrien Jeanniard (1) , Frederic Koch (1) , Sébastien Jaeger (1) , Denis Thieffry (2) , Jean Imbert (2) , Jean-Christophe Andrau (1) , Salvatore Spicuglia (1) , Pierre Ferrier (1)

1 CIML - Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille - Luminy
2 TAGC - Technologies avancées pour le génôme et la clinique

MOTIVATION: High-density tiling microarrays are increasingly used in combination with ChIP assays to study transcriptional regulation. To ease the analysis of the large amounts of data generated by this approach, we have developed ChIP-on-chip Analysis Suite (CoCAS), a standalone software suite which implements optimized ChIP-on-chip data normalization, improved peak detection, as well as quality control reports. Our software allows dye swap, replicate correlation and connects easily with genome browsers and other peak detection algorithms. CoCAS can readily be used on the latest generation of Agilent high-density arrays. Also, the implemented peak detection methods are suitable for other datasets, including ChIP-Seq output. AVAILABILITY: The software is available for download along with a sample dataset at http://www.ciml.univ-mrs.fr/software/ferrier.htm. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Domaines: Immunologie

Touati Benoukraf, Pierre Cauchy, Romain Fenouil, Adrien Jeanniard, Frederic Koch, et al.. CoCAS: a ChIP-on-chip analysis suite.. Bioinformatics, 2009, 25 (7), pp.954-5. ⟨10.1093/bioinformatics/btp075⟩. ⟨hal-00408403⟩