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bowhan / piPipes

piRNA pipeline collection developed in the Zamore Lab and ZLab in UMass Med School
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bigWig in binary code #10

Closed DannyBerg closed 9 years ago

DannyBerg commented 9 years ago

Hey i was using the piPipes small, and in the output folder 'bigWig_normalized_by_mirna' all the bigwig files are in binary code. Can u make the output in standard utf-8 or something? Thank you

bowhan commented 9 years ago

Hi bigWig files are in binary by nature. You can load it into UCSC genome browser or IGV directly. They are indexed binaries to allows fast random access by machine, not by human.

Please find more information here. http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenpath/help/bigWig.html