How to Install bedtools in Ubuntu 18.04



Install bedtools by entering the following commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install bedtools

Description:

suite of utilities for comparing genomic features

The BEDTools utilities allow one to address common genomics tasks such as finding feature overlaps and computing coverage. The utilities are largely based on four widely-used file formats: BED, GFF/GTF, VCF, and SAM/BAM. Using BEDTools, one can develop sophisticated pipelines that answer complicated research questions by streaming several BEDTools together. . The groupBy utility is distributed in the filo package.

Homepage: https://github.com/arq5x/bedtools2

Version: 2.26.0+dfsg-5

Section: universe/science