diff --git a/bin/1.2_filter_motifs/abs_max_score.R b/bin/1.2_filter_motifs/abs_max_score.R
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-#!/bin/Rscript
-
-# author: Jannik Hamp
-# email: jannik.hamp@googlemail.com
-
-# desciption: This script gets called by compareBed.sh
-
-# It calculates the absolute position of maximum score of the footprints.
-# This information is later used for an additional flag column in the bed file.
-
-library(data.table)
-args = commandArgs(TRUE)
-file = args[1]
-
-tab = fread(file, sep='\t')
-
-# check if data has less than 9 columns
-if (ncol(tab) < 9) {
-	stop("footprint file has less than 9 columns. exiting.")
-}
-
-tab[[8]] = tab[[2]] + tab[[8]]
-
-fwrite(tab, file, row.names=FALSE, col.names=FALSE, quote=FALSE, sep='\t')