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Genome size (Mbp)

Homo sapience - 2700 Mbp

Mus musculus - 1870 Mbp

Caenorhabditis elegans - 90 Mbp

Drosophila melanogaster - 120 Mbp

It's the mappable genome size or effective genome size which is defined as the genome size which can be sequenced. Because of the repetitive features on the chromosomes, the actual mappable genome size will be smaller than the original size, about 90% or 70% of the genome size.

P-value

P-value cutoff. Default is 0.00001, for looser results, try 0.001 instead.

Tag size (optional)

Length of reads. Determined from first 10 reads if not specified (input 0).

Keep duplicates

It controls the MACS behavior towards duplicate tags at the exact same location -- the same coordination and the same strand. The default auto option makes MACS calculate the maximum tags at the exact same location based on binomal distribution using 1e-5 as pvalue cutoff; and the all option keeps every tags. If an integer is given, at most this number of tags will be kept at the same location.

Use model

Whether or not to use MACS paired peaks model.

Model fold

Select the regions within MFOLD range of high-confidence enrichment ratio against. Model fold is available when Use Model is true, which is the foldchange to chose paired peaks to build paired peaks model. Users need to set a lower(smaller) and upper(larger) number for fold change so that MACS will only use the peaks within these foldchange range to build model.

Wiggle output 

If this flag is on, MACS will store the fragment pileup in wiggle format for the whole genome data instead of for every chromosomes.

Wiggle space 

By default, the resolution for saving wiggle files is 10 bps, i.e., MACS will save the raw tag count every 10 bps. You can change it along with Wiggle output parameter.

Shift size

An arbitrary shift value used as a half of the fragment size when model is not built. Shift size is available when Use Model is false, which will represent the HALF of the fragment size of your sample. If your sonication and size selection size is 300 bps, after you trim out nearly 100 bps adapters, the fragment size is about 200 bps, so you can specify 100 here.

Band width

The band width which is used to scan the genome for model building. You can set this parameter as the sonication fragment size expected from wet experiment. Used only while building the shifting model.

Use lambda

Whether to use local lambda model which can use the local bias at peak regions to throw out false positives.

Small nearby region

The small nearby region in basepairs to calculate dynamic lambda. This is used to capture the bias near the peak summit region. Invalid if there is no control data.

Auto bimodal

Whether turn on the auto pair model process.If set, when MACS failed to build paired model, it will use the nomodelsettings, the “Shift size” parameter to shift and extend each tags.

Scale to large

When set, scale the small sample up to the bigger sample.By default, the bigger dataset will be scaled down towards the smaller dataset,which will lead to smaller p/qvalues and more specific results. Keep in mind that scaling down will bring down background noise more.

Gene annotations table

Path to gene annotation table (e.g. a refGene table in sqlite3 db format.

Span size

Span from TSS and TTS in the gene-centered annotation (base pairs). ChIP regions within this range from TSS and TTS are considered when calculating the coverage rates in promoter and downstream.

Wiggle profiling resolution

Wiggle profiling resolution. WARNING: Value smaller than the wig interval (resolution) may cause aliasing error.

Promoter/downstream interval

Promoter/downstream intervals for ChIP region annotation are three values or a single value can be given. If a single value is given, it will be segmented into three equal fractions (e.g. 3000 is equivalent to 1000,2000,3000).

BiPromoter ranges

Bidirectional-promoter sizes for ChIP region annotation. It's two values or a single value can be given. If a single value is given, it will be segmented into two equal fractions (e.g. 5000 is equivalent to 2500,5000).

Relative distance

Relative distance to TSS/TTS in WIGGLE file profiling.

Gene group files

Gene groups of particular interest in wig profiling. Each gene group file must have gene names in the 1st column. The file names are separated by commas.

Gene group names

Set this parameter empty for using default values.

The names of the gene groups from "Gene group files" parameter. These names appear in the legends of the wig profiling plots.

Values range: comma-separated list of strings. Default value: 'Group 1, Group 2,...Group n'.

Title

Title of the figure.

Label

Label of data in the figure.

Assembly version

The directory to store phastcons scores.

Window width

Window width centered at middle of regions.

Height

Height of plot.

Width

Width of plot.

Genome assembly version

UCSC database version.

De novo motifs

Run de novo motif search.

Motif database

Known motif collections.

Region width

Width of the region to be scanned for motifs; depends on a resolution of assay.

Pvalue cutoff

Pvalue cutoff for the motif significance.

Output type

The directory to store Conduct GO results.

Official gene symbols

Output official gene symbol instead of refseq name.

Distance

Set a number which unit is base. It will get the refGenes in n bases from peak center.

Genome file

Select a genome file (sqlite3 file) to search refGenes.

Title

Title is used to name the output files - so make it meaningful.

Gene Universe

Select a gene universe.