Good Morning Itamar:

Please note the discussion of precision in the wiggle format:
http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/wiggle.html

> For speed and efficiency, wiggle data is compressed and
> stored internally in 128 unique bins. This compression means
> that there is a minor loss of precision when data is exported
> from a wiggle track (i.e., with output format "data points"
> or "bed format" within the table browser).

You can avoid this loss of precision and improve the efficiency
of display of your tracks with the bigWig format instead:

http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/bigWig.html

--Hiram

itamar simon wrote:
> I uploaded a custom track to the genome browser using the human HG18
> release and the wiggle format. In order to check the upload I used the
> table option to download the values from my custom track and realized
> that some of them were slightly changed. For example I am enclosing the
> uploaded and the displayed values for few locations on human chromosome
> 22 
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