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Collectively, the bedtools utilities are a swiss-army knife of tools
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for a wide-range of genomics analysis tasks. The most widely-used
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tools enable genome arithmetic: that is, set theory on the genome. For
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example, bedtools allows one to intersect, merge, count, complement,
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and shuffle genomic intervals from multiple files in widely-used
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genomic file formats such as BAM, BED, GFF/GTF, VCF.
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While each individual tool is designed to do a relatively simple task
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(e.g., intersect two interval files), quite sophisticated analyses can
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be conducted by combining multiple bedtools operations on the UNIX
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command line.
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