## Matching genomic regions / Overlap BED

### Description

Computes the amount of overlap (positive values) or distance (negative values) between genome features and reports the result at the end of the same line.

### Parameters

- Columns to use (Integer, Integer, Integer, Integer) [2,3,6,7]

### Details

overlap computes the amount of overlap (in the case of positive values) or distance (in the case of negative values) between feature coordinates occurring on the same input line and reports the result at the end of the same line. In this way, it is a useful method for computing custom overlap scores from the output of other BEDTools.

### Output

The output is a tab-delimited text file.

### References

This tool uses the BEDTools package. Please cite the article:

Quinlan AR and Hall IM, 2010. BEDTools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features. Bioinformatics. 26, 6, pp. 841–842.

Please see the BEDTools homepage for more details.