Hi Everyone
I would nedd some help on genomeCoverageBed tool. This tools when used for finding per base genome coverage uses an option -d.
I am actually interested in finding read counts for each base within a particular intron of a gene.
I will like to explain you more just to make myself clear.
I used IGV to see how my alignments looks and moreover what is the coverage of each base within a particular intron. When I take my cursor in IGV to the area exactly above the base (i am interested in)within the coverage track it gives me such details:
Total Count:6
A:0
C:0
G:6
T:0
N:0
Now this total count is basically the read count for the base G within that intron. This counts says that 6 reads have actually covered this base position(and hence base).
Now when i use this code snippet which is basically finding per base genome coverage
genomeCoverageBed -i 2-B3-1b-D303A_sorted.bed -g pombe.genome -d
this code gives me around 31 as the depth for that base(i.e G in my example). Looking closely in IGV i figured out that this 21 is basically 21 = 6 + 15
where 6 is the actual reads that has covered this base position(hence base) and 15 means that these reads have not covered that base at that position, but since the genomeCoverageBed tool calculates depth of feature coverage it also includes all those reads which skips that particular base.
I would provide you with an image to make it more clear
I would like to know how can i ...