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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 9.

Available Tools for Single-Cell ATAC-seq Data Processing

Languages Notes Docs Citation
BAP R; Python Bead-based scATAC-seq data processing. ++ Lareau et al. (2019)
Last updated: 2019
BROCKMAN R; Bash; Ruby Convert genomics data into K-mer words associated with chromatin marks used to compare and identify changes across samples. ++ de Boer & Regev (2018)
Last updated: 2018
Cell Ranger ATAC NA Commercial. Set of analysis pipelines for Chromium single cell ATAC-seq. +++ Unpublished
chromVAR R Identify transcription factor accessibility in single-cell data. Enables clustering of single-cell ATAC-seq data. +++ Schep et al. (2017)
Last updated: 2019
Cicero R Predict cis-regulatory DNA interactions using single-cell chromatin accessibility data. +++ Pliner et al. (2018)
Last updated: 2019
cisTopic R Identify cell states and cis-regulatory topics from single-cell data. +++ Bravo González-Blas et al.(2019)
Last updated: 2019
scABC R Classify single-cell ATAC using unsupervised clustering and identify chromatin regions specific to cell identity. + Zamanighomi et al. (2018)
Last updated: 2019
SCALE Python Clustering and visualization of single-cell ATAC-seq data into interpretable cell populations. ++ Xiong et al. (2019)
Last updated: 2019
Scasat Bash; Python; R Complete pipeline to process scATAC-seq data with simple steps. +++ Baker et al. (2019)
Last updated: 2019
scATAC-pro R; Python Comprehensive pipeline for single cell ATAC-seq analysis. +++ Yu et al. (2019)
Last updated: 2020
scOpen Python Chromatin-accessibility estimation of single-cell ATAC data. + Li et al. (2019)
Last updated: 2020
SCRAT R Useful for studying single cell heterogeneity. Can identify changes in gene sets or transcription factor binding sites. Includes GUI and web-based service. +++ Ji et al. (2017)
Last updated: 2018
SnapATAC R; Python Single Nucleus Analysis Pipeline for ATAC-seq. +++ Fang et al. (2019)
Last updated: 2019