Category
BigWig Manipulation
Usage
wigToBigWig in.wig chrom.sizes out.bw
Manual
This tool is part of UCSC Genome Browser's utilities.
wigToBigWig in.wig chrom.sizes out.bw
Required arguments
- in.wig is in one of the ascii wiggle formats, but not including track lines
- chrom.sizes is a two column file/URL: <chromosome name> <size in bases> (columns are separated by
Tab). Use the script: fetchChromSizes to obtain the actual chrom.sizes information from UCSC, please do not make up a chrom sizes from your own information.
- out.bw is the output indexed big wig file.
Options
- -blockSize=N: Number of items to bundle in r-tree. Default 256
- -itemsPerSlot=N: Number of data points bundled at lowest level. Default 1024
- -clip: If set just issue warning messages rather than dying if wig file contains items off end of chromosome or chromosomes that are not in the chrom.sizes file..
- -unc: If set, do not use compression.
- -fixedSummaries: If set, use a predefined sequence of summary levels.
- -keepAllChromosomes: If set, store all chromosomes in b-tree.
File formats this tool works with
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