diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index fce03eb8..de59a6da 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ SUBDIRS = $(SRC_DIR)/annotateBed \
 		  $(SRC_DIR)/randomBed \
 		  $(SRC_DIR)/regressTest \
 		  $(SRC_DIR)/reldist \
+		  $(SRC_DIR)/revcompBed \
 		  $(SRC_DIR)/sampleFile \
 		  $(SRC_DIR)/shiftBed \
 		  $(SRC_DIR)/shuffleBed \
diff --git a/src/bedtools.cpp b/src/bedtools.cpp
index 0bccebb7..78b276bb 100644
--- a/src/bedtools.cpp
+++ b/src/bedtools.cpp
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ void summary_help();
 int reldist_main(int argc, char* argv[]); //
 void sample_help();
 int shift_main(int argc, char* argv[]); //
+int revcomp_main(int argc, char* argv[]);
 int shuffle_main(int argc, char* argv[]); //
 int slop_main(int argc, char* argv[]); //
 int split_main(int argc, char* argv[]); //
@@ -132,7 +133,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
     else if (subCmd == "window")      return window_main(argc-1, argv+1);
     else if (subCmd == "genomecov")   return genomecoverage_main(argc-1, argv+1);
     else if (subCmd == "cluster")     return cluster_main(argc-1, argv+1);
-	  else if (subCmd == "shift")       return shift_main(argc-1, argv+1);
+    else if (subCmd == "shift")       return shift_main(argc-1, argv+1);
+    else if (subCmd == "revcomp")     return revcomp_main(argc-1, argv+1);
     else if (subCmd == "slop")        return slop_main(argc-1, argv+1);
     else if (subCmd == "split")       return split_main(argc-1, argv+1);
     else if (subCmd == "flank")       return flank_main(argc-1, argv+1);
@@ -236,6 +238,7 @@ int bedtools_help(void)
     cout  << "    cluster       "  << "Cluster (but don't merge) overlapping/nearby intervals.\n";
     cout  << "    complement    "  << "Extract intervals _not_ represented by an interval file.\n";
     cout  << "    shift         "  << "Adjust the position of intervals.\n";
+    cout  << "    revcomp       "  << "Compute the intervals on the reverse complement.\n";
     cout  << "    subtract      "  << "Remove intervals based on overlaps b/w two files.\n";
     cout  << "    slop          "  << "Adjust the size of intervals.\n";
     cout  << "    flank         "  << "Create new intervals from the flanks of existing intervals.\n";
diff --git a/src/revcompBed/Makefile.frag b/src/revcompBed/Makefile.frag
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7845a74d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/revcompBed/Makefile.frag
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+BUILT_OBJECTS += obj/revcompBedMain.o obj/revcompBed.o
+
+obj/revcompBedMain.o: src/revcompBed/revcompBedMain.cpp obj/revcompBedMain.d
+	$(CXX_COMPILE)
+
+obj/revcompBed.o: src/revcompBed/revcompBed.cpp obj/revcompBed.d
+	$(CXX_COMPILE)
diff --git a/src/revcompBed/revcompBed.cpp b/src/revcompBed/revcompBed.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6803fad0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/revcompBed/revcompBed.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+#include "revcompBed.h"
+
+#include "lineFileUtilities.h"
+
+BedRevcomp::BedRevcomp(const std::string &bedFile, const std::string &genomeFile, bool printHeader):
+ _bedFile(bedFile),
+ _genomeFile(genomeFile),
+ _printHeader(printHeader),
+ _bed(_bedFile),
+ _genome(genomeFile)
+{
+  Revcomp();
+}
+
+void BedRevcomp::Revcomp() {
+
+  BED bedEntry; // used to store the current BED line from the BED file.
+
+  _bed.Open();
+  // report header first if asked.
+  if (_printHeader == true) {
+    _bed.PrintHeader();
+  }
+  while (_bed.GetNextBed(bedEntry)) {
+    if (_bed._status == BED_VALID) {
+      Revcomp(bedEntry);
+      _bed.reportBedNewLine(bedEntry);
+    }
+  }
+  _bed.Close();
+}
+
+namespace {
+// like std::clamp from C++17
+CHRPOS clamp(const CHRPOS& a, const CHRPOS& b, const CHRPOS& c) {
+  return std::min(std::max(a, b), c);
+}
+}
+
+void BedRevcomp::Revcomp(BED &bed) {
+  CHRPOS chromSize = _genome.getChromSize(bed.chrom);
+
+  auto rcStart = clamp(0, chromSize - bed.end, chromSize);
+  auto rcEnd   = clamp(0, chromSize - bed.start, chromSize);
+
+  bed.end = rcEnd;
+  bed.start = rcStart;
+}
diff --git a/src/revcompBed/revcompBed.h b/src/revcompBed/revcompBed.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..14ce7602
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/revcompBed/revcompBed.h
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#pragma once
+
+#include "bedFile.h"
+#include "GenomeFile.h"
+
+#include <string>
+
+class BedRevcomp {
+
+public:
+
+    BedRevcomp(const std::string &bedFile, const std::string &genomeFile, bool printHeader);
+
+private:
+
+    std::string _bedFile;
+    std::string _genomeFile;
+
+    bool   _printHeader;
+
+    BedFile _bed;
+    GenomeFile _genome;
+
+    void Revcomp();
+    void Revcomp(BED &bed);
+};
diff --git a/src/revcompBed/revcompBedMain.cpp b/src/revcompBed/revcompBedMain.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3186ca3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/revcompBed/revcompBedMain.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+#include "revcompBed.h"
+#include "version.h"
+
+using namespace std;
+
+// define our program name
+#define PROGRAM_NAME "bedtools revcomp"
+
+// define our parameter checking macro
+#define PARAMETER_CHECK(param, paramLen, actualLen) (strncmp(argv[i], param, min(actualLen, paramLen))== 0) && (actualLen == paramLen)
+
+// function declarations
+void revcomp_help(int);
+
+int revcomp_main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
+
+    // our configuration variables
+    bool showHelp = false;
+
+    // input files
+    string bedFile = "stdin";
+    string genomeFile;
+
+    bool haveBed    = true;
+    bool haveGenome = false;
+    bool printHeader = false;
+
+    for(int i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
+        int parameterLength = (int)strlen(argv[i]);
+
+        if((PARAMETER_CHECK("-h", 2, parameterLength)) ||
+        (PARAMETER_CHECK("--help", 5, parameterLength))) {
+            showHelp = true;
+        }
+    }
+
+    if(showHelp) revcomp_help(0);
+
+    // do some parsing (all of these parameters require 2 strings)
+    for(int i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
+
+        int parameterLength = (int)strlen(argv[i]);
+
+        if(PARAMETER_CHECK("-i", 2, parameterLength)) {
+            if ((i+1) < argc) {
+                bedFile = argv[i + 1];
+                i++;
+            }
+        }
+        else if(PARAMETER_CHECK("-g", 2, parameterLength)) {
+            if ((i+1) < argc) {
+                haveGenome = true;
+                genomeFile = argv[i + 1];
+                i++;
+            }
+        }
+        else if(PARAMETER_CHECK("-header", 7, parameterLength)) {
+            printHeader = true;
+        }
+        else {
+            cerr << endl << "*****ERROR: Unrecognized parameter: " << argv[i] << " *****" << endl << endl;
+            showHelp = true;
+        }
+    }
+
+    // make sure we have both input files
+    if (!haveBed || !haveGenome) {
+        cerr << endl << "*****" << endl << "*****ERROR: Need both a BED (-i) and a genome (-g) file. " << endl << "*****" << endl;
+        showHelp = true;
+    }
+
+    if (showHelp) revcomp_help(1);
+
+    BedRevcomp(bedFile, genomeFile, printHeader);
+    return 0;
+}
+
+void revcomp_help(int exit_status) {
+
+    cerr << "\nTool:    bedtools revcomp (aka revcompBed)" << endl;
+    cerr << "Version: " << VERSION << "\n";    
+    cerr << "Summary: Compute the intervals on the reverse complement." << endl << endl;
+
+    cerr << "Usage:   " << PROGRAM_NAME << " [OPTIONS] -i <bed/gff/vcf> -g <genome>" << endl << endl;
+
+    cerr << "Options: " << endl;
+    cerr << "\t-header\t"           << "Print the header from the input file prior to results." << endl << endl;
+
+    cerr << "Notes: " << endl;
+    cerr << "\t(1)  Starts will be set to 0 if options would force it below 0." << endl;
+    cerr << "\t(2)  Ends will be set to the chromosome length if above the max chrom length." << endl;
+    cerr << "\t(3)  The genome file should be tab delimited and structured as follows:" << endl;
+    cerr << "\n\t<chromName><TAB><chromSize>" << endl << endl;
+    cerr << "\tFor example, Human (hg19):" << endl;
+    cerr << "\tchr1\t249250621" << endl;
+    cerr << "\tchr2\t243199373" << endl;
+    cerr << "\t..." << endl;
+    cerr << "\tchr18_gl000207_random\t4262" << endl << endl;
+
+    cerr << "Tip 1. Use samtools faidx to create a genome file from a FASTA: " << endl;
+    cerr << "\tOne can the samtools faidx command to index a FASTA file." << endl;
+    cerr << "\tThe resulting .fai index is suitable as a genome file, " << endl;
+    cerr << "\tas bedtools will only look at the first two, relevant columns" << endl;
+    cerr << "\tof the .fai file." << endl << endl;
+    cerr << "\tFor example:" << endl;
+    cerr << "\tsamtools faidx GRCh38.fa" << endl;
+    cerr << "\tbedtools revcomp -i my.bed -g GRCh38.fa.fai" << endl << endl;
+
+    cerr << "Tip 2. Use UCSC Table Browser to create a genome file: " << endl;
+    cerr << "\tOne can use the UCSC Genome Browser's MySQL database to extract" << endl;
+    cerr << "\tchromosome sizes. For example, H. sapiens:" << endl << endl;
+    cerr << "\tmysql --user=genome --host=genome-mysql.cse.ucsc.edu -A -e \\" << endl;
+    cerr << "\t\"select chrom, size from hg19.chromInfo\"  > hg19.genome" << endl << endl;
+
+    // end the program here
+    exit(exit_status);
+}
diff --git a/test/revcomp/a.bed b/test/revcomp/a.bed
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e0ddf220
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/revcomp/a.bed
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+chr1	100	200	a1	1	+
+chr1	100	200	a2	2	-
diff --git a/test/revcomp/b.bed b/test/revcomp/b.bed
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a147e8ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/revcomp/b.bed
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+chr1	66999638	67216822	NM_032291	0	+
+chr1	92145899	92351836	NR_036634	0	-
diff --git a/test/revcomp/huge.genome b/test/revcomp/huge.genome
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d8ebc53a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/revcomp/huge.genome
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+chr1	249250621
diff --git a/test/revcomp/test-revcomp.sh b/test/revcomp/test-revcomp.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..147ecff5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/revcomp/test-revcomp.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+set -e;
+BT="${BT-../../bin/bedtools}"
+
+FAILURES=0;
+
+check()
+{
+	if diff $1 $2; then
+    	echo ok
+
+	else
+    	FAILURES=$(expr $FAILURES + 1);
+		echo fail
+
+	fi
+}
+
+# cat a.bed
+# chr1	100	200	a1	1	+
+# chr1	100	200	a2	2	-
+
+###########################################################
+# test simple
+###########################################################
+echo -e "    revcomp.t1...\c"
+echo \
+"chr1	800	900	a1	1	+
+chr1	800	900	a2	2	-" > exp
+"$BT" revcomp -i a.bed -g tiny.genome > obs
+check obs exp
+rm obs exp
+
+echo -e "    revcomp.t2...\c"
+echo \
+"chr1	249250421	249250521	a1	1	+
+chr1	249250421	249250521	a2	2	-" > exp
+"$BT" revcomp -i a.bed -g huge.genome > obs
+check obs exp
+rm obs exp
+
+
+###########################################################
+# test clamp
+###########################################################
+echo -e "    revcomp.t3...\c"
+echo \
+"chr1	0	0	NM_032291	0	+
+chr1	0	0	NR_036634	0	-" > exp
+"$BT" revcomp -i b.bed -g tiny.genome > obs
+check obs exp
+rm obs exp
+
+
+[[ $FAILURES -eq 0 ]] || exit 1;
diff --git a/test/revcomp/tiny.genome b/test/revcomp/tiny.genome
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0dd8b222
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/revcomp/tiny.genome
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+chr1	1000