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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 10.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Protoc Hum Genet. 2020 Jun;106(1):e101. doi: 10.1002/cphg.101

Table 8.

Tools to Investigate Region Enrichement

Languages Notes Docs Citation
Annotatr R Annotate summarize and visualize genomic regions. +++ Cavalcante & Sartor (2017)
Last updated: 2019
BART/BARTweb Python Predict factors that bind at cis-regulatory regions. +++ Wang et al. (2018)
Last updated: 2020
chipenrich R Perform gene set enrichment testing using genomic regions. +++ Welch et al. (2014)
Last updated: 2020
coloc-stats Python Perform co-localization analysis of genomic regions. +++ Simovski et al. (2018)
Last updated: 2019
COLO JSP Identify genomic features in close proximity to user-submitted genomic regions. ++ Kim et al. (2015)
Last updated: 2015
FEATnotator Perl; R Annotate genomic regions. ++ Podicheti & Mockaitis (2015)
Last updated: 2018
GenomeRunner .NET Perform annotation and enrichment of genomic regions against default or custom regulatory regions. ++ Dozmorov et al. (2016)
Last updated: 2016
GenometriCorr R Determine spatial correlation between region sets. ++ Favorov et al. (2012)
Last updated: 2020
Genomic Association Tester Python Calculate the significance of overlaps between multiple genomic region sets. +++ Heger et al. (2013)
Last updated: 2019
GIGGLE C Genomics search engine to uncover significantly shared genomic loci (regions) between data. +++ Layer et al. (2018)
Last updated: 2019
GLANET Java; Perl Genomic loci annotation and enrichment tool between sets of genomic regions. +++ Otlu et al. (2017)
Last updated: 2019
GREAT C Annotate genomic regions. +++ McLean et al. (2010)
Last updated: 2019
LOLA/LOLAweb R Determine significant enrichment between region sets to inform on biological meaning. +++ Sheffield & Bock (2016)
Last updated: 2019
regioneR R Evaluate significant associations between region sets using permutation testing. +++ Gel et al. (2016)
Last updated: 2020
StereoGene C++; R Estimate genome-wide correlation between pairs of genomic features. ++ Stavrovskaya et al. (2017)
Last updated: 2019