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SUBMITTER: Kent WJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2922891 | biostudies-other | 2010 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Kent W J WJ Zweig A S AS Barber G G Hinrichs A S AS Karolchik D D
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20100717 17
<h4>Summary</h4>BigWig and BigBed files are compressed binary indexed files containing data at several resolutions that allow the high-performance display of next-generation sequencing experiment results in the UCSC Genome Browser. The visualization is implemented using a multi-layered software approach that takes advantage of specific capabilities of web-based protocols and Linux and UNIX operating systems files, R trees and various indexing and compression tricks. As a result, only the data ne ...[more]