What program reads ".bb" TFBS file from ENCODE?

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David Nguyen

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Apr 18, 2013, 2:55:53 PM4/18/13

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Hi there,

I'm interested in looking at the TFBS data and downloaded the files. One is called:

spp.optimal.wgEncodeBroadHistoneGm12878CtcfStdAlnRep0_VS_wgEncodeBroadHistoneGm12878ControlStdAlnRep0

However, I don't have a program that can open this file.

What and where is the program for this?

Thanks,

-dave

Brian Lee

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Apr 19, 2013, 1:06:36 PM4/19/13

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Dear Dave,

Thank you for using the UCSC Genome Browser and your question about ".bb" files. Files ending in ".bb" are bigBed files.

Click this link, http://hgwdev.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/bigBed.html, for extensive information on the bigBed format and how to extract data with different binary utilities located in this directory: http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/

Thank you again for your inquiry and using the UCSC Genome Browser. If you have further questions, please feel free to contact the mailing list again at gen...@soe.ucsc.edu.

All the best,

Brian Lee
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group