Reads were aligned to the indexed GRCh38/hg38 human genome assembly (hg38.fa) or the Chinese hamster (Cricetulus griseus) genome assembly (RAZU01) (Rupp et al. 2018 (link)) using BWA-0.7.12 mapping software (Li and Durbin 2009 (link)). The reference genomes were downloaded from the UCSC Genome Browser prior to use (
Aligned sequences were converted to SAM format and sorted and indexed using SAMtools-1.2 software (Li et al. 2009 (link)). To read and view sequence information, SAM files were converted to BAM files employing SAMtools. Indexed sorted BAM files were converted to BED files using BEDTools-2.15.0 (Quinlan and Hall 2010 (link)).