Description
Computes histograms (default), per-base reports (-d) and BEDGRAPH (-bg) summaries of feature coverage (e.g., aligned sequences) for a given genome.
Input
Tab-delimited table of chromosome names in the first column and chromosome sizes in the second column
Extension of the output file (e. g., ".bg", ".bedgraph", ".txt", ".tab", etc.) It is set arbitrarily by the user and corresponds to the file format which depends on arguments.
Tools
bedtools Documentation
A set of tools for genomic analysis tasks, specifically enabling genome arithmetic (merge, count, complement) on various file types.