New Format: bigWig Track Format

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Format name

bigWig Track Format

Version number

N/A

PUID

N/A

Extensions

bw / bigwig

MIME/Media Type

N/A

Description

bigWig files are outputs of the wiggle (wig) file format. The format is useful for the display of dense, continous data in a Genome Browser as a graph. bigWig files are an indexed binary format.

Format type

Dataset

Is Related To

N/A

Vendor

UCSC Genome Bioinformatics web site

File format identification signatures

Signature:

• 26FC8F880400??0058
• 26FC8F88

Signature Description:

• BOF; Offset 0; Magic Bytes: &...X
• EOF; Offset 0; Magic Bytes: &...

Samples

• Connahs, Heidi (2022). BigWig files for FAIRE-seq data [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.rv15dv492
• Soto-Feliciano, Yadira M. et al. (2023). MLL3 ChIP sequencing in murine and human HCC cells [Dataset]. Dryad.https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f1vhhmh0h

References

• https://www.pombase.org/faq/what-bigwig-format
• https://genomics-lab.fleming.gr/goldenpath/help/bigWig.html
• https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/30/11/1618/282756
• https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/bigWig.html

Credit

Digital Research Alliance of Canada - Federated Research Data Repository / Alliance de recherche numérique du Canada - Dépôt fédéré de données de recherche