30 | 30 | * After this analysis a good ChIP-seq experiment will have a second peak (reflecting the fragment size) at least as tall as the first peak (reflecting read length). This is how the graph should look: ([[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3431496/figure/F4/|Fig4E]]). If the second peak is smaller than the first, ([[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3431496/figure/F4/|like the example shown in Fig4G Marginal]]), macs will not estimate fragment size correctly. In that case we recommend running macs with parameters "--nomodel" and "--shiftsize=half_of_the_fragment_size", or "--nomodel" and "--extsize=fragment_size". The fragment size is detected on the strand cross correlation analysis. |