Wednesday, March 7, 2012

UCSC Files

Summary

The UCSC genome browser can load and generate a number of different file types. Their website has a good description of the formats, but we can add a few comments here.

BED Files

  • BED files are the standard method for delivering locations of 'small' sets of feature, e.g., 40,000 transcription factror binding sites.
  • The files do not contain any sequence information.
  • BED file can be uploaded to UCSC and many other genome browsers to view results

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