Repost: > Subject: > Re: [Genome] What is the difference between the wiggle format and > bedGraph format? > From: > Peng Yu <[email protected]> > Date: > Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:52:39 +1800 > To: > [email protected] > > To: > [email protected] > > > You haven't told me what 'original state' means. Could you let me know? > > Do you mean bedGraph is a lossless format but wiggle is a lossy format? > > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Hiram Clawson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Good Morning: >> >> Wiggle tracks compress the data for storage and reduce >> the precision of the input data values. The exact >> data values can not be recovered from the compression >> format. The bedGraph type of tracks store and use the >> actual original data. Thus, the bedGraph tracks can >> return the original data in the table browser. >> >> See also: >> http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/wiggle.html >> http://genomewiki.ucsc.edu/index.php/Selecting_a_graphing_track_data_format >> http://genomewiki.ucsc.edu/index.php/Wiggle >> >> --Hiram >> >> Peng Yu wrote: >>> I see the following description. >>> >>> http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/bedgraph.html >>> >>> "This track type is similar to the wiggle (WIG) format, but unlike the >>> wiggle format, data exported in the bedGraph format are preserved in >>> their original state." >>> >>> But it is not making sense to me what the difference between wiggle >>> and bedGraph is. What does 'original state' mean? Could the >>> description on the webpage be revised to make it clearer? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > confirm 7481677d3bd8feb0b87083ddf9cebae68fd60973 > From: > [email protected]
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