Category
Format Conversion
Usage
bedToBigBed in.bed chrom.sizes out.bb
Manual
This tool is part of UCSC Genome Browser's utilities.
Required arguments
Options
- -type=bedN[+[P]] :
- N is between 3 and 15
- optional (+) if extra "bedPlus" fields,
- optional P specifies the number of extra fields. Not required, but preferred.
- Examples:
-type=bed6
or -type=bed6+
or -type=bed6+3
- -as=fields.as: If you have non-standard "bedPlus" fields, it's great to put a definition of each field in a row in AutoSql format here.
- -blockSize=N: Number of items to bundle in r-tree. Default 256
- -itemsPerSlot=N: Number of data points bundled at lowest level. Default 512.
- -unc: If set, do not use compression.
- -tab: If set, expect fields to be tab separated, normally expects white space separator.
- -extraIndex=fieldList: If set, make an index on each field in a comma separated list.
-extraIndex=name
and -extraIndex=name,id
are commonly used.
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