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+package org.broadinstitute.sting.playground.gatk.walkers;
+
+import net.sf.samtools.SAMFileHeader;
+import net.sf.samtools.SAMReadGroupRecord;
+import net.sf.samtools.SAMRecord;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.GenomeAnalysisEngine;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.LocusContext;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.refdata.RefMetaDataTracker;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.walkers.LocusWalker;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.playground.utils.AlleleFrequencyEstimate;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.playground.utils.*;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.*;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.ReadBackedPileup;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.cmdLine.Argument;
+
+import java.util.*;
+import java.util.zip.*;
+import java.io.*;
+
+// Plot a histogram of depth of coverage
+// j.maguire 6-11-2009
+
+public class CoverageHistogram extends LocusWalker<Integer,Integer>
+{
+	//@Argument(fullName="start", shortName="start", required=false, doc="start") public Integer START = 0;
+
+	// Private state.
+	int[] coverage_hist;
+	int max_depth;
+
+	long sum_coverage;
+	long num_sites;
+
+	/////////
+	// Walker Interface Functions 
+    public void initialize() 
+	{
+		coverage_hist = new int[1000000];
+		max_depth = 0;
+
+		sum_coverage = 0;
+		num_sites = 0;
+	}
+
+    public Integer map(RefMetaDataTracker tracker, char ref, LocusContext context) 
+	{
+		if (ref == 'N') { return null; }
+		int depth = context.getReads().size();
+		coverage_hist[depth] += 1;
+		if (depth > max_depth) { max_depth = depth; }
+
+		sum_coverage += depth;
+		num_sites += 1;
+
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+    public void onTraversalDone(Integer sum) 
+	{
+		double mean_coverage = (double)sum_coverage / (double)num_sites;
+		out.printf("# mean:%f num_sites:%d\n\n", mean_coverage, num_sites);
+
+		out.println("depth count");
+		for (int i = 0; i < max_depth; i++)
+		{
+			out.printf("%d %d\n", i, coverage_hist[i]);
+		}
+		return;
+	}
+
+    public Integer reduceInit() 
+	{
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+    public Integer reduce(Integer record, Integer sum) 
+	{
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	// END Walker Interface Functions
+	/////////
+}