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rioualen edited this page Apr 7, 2016 · 1 revision

File formats

NB Should be merged with glossary section?

A list of formats maintained by the UCSC.

  • fastq: raw sequences + quality (more).
  • sam: aligned reads (more).
  • bam: compressed sam (more).
  • cigar: alignment (more).
  • bed: genomic coordinates (more).
  • wig: coverage / density of some signal along genome (more).
  • bedgraph: positions + density values (more).
  • gff: genome feature file - annotations (more).
  • gtf: variant of GFF, with two fields for annotation (more).
  • gft2: Gene annotation (more).
  • fastq: raw reads + quality scores (more).
  • pileup: base-pair information at each chromosomal position (more).
  • vcf: variant call format (more).
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