To Whom It May Concern,
I am curious if there is a tool within Galaxy to generate a set of random intervals from a particular genome similar to the "Random Intervals" tool within the ENCODE tools? I am using the "Aggregate datapoints" tool to get phastCons conservation scores for peaks from ChIP-Seq data. I would like to compare these scores to a random expectation so would like to be able to use a Random Intervals-like tool to generate a set of random positions to compare to the experimental set.
Best, Vinny
Vincent J. Lynch, Associate Research Scientist Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Yale Systems Biology Institute Yale University
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