Is there a way to determine if coordinates in a wiggle (.wig) file should be 1-based or 0-based?
The UCSC specification says that wiggle files are one-based, as for custom tracks. However, UCSC's hgWiggle tool writes 0-based files. Is it reasonable to guess the source from the file headers? For example: -- 1-based custom track in wiggle format has a "track" header line. -- 0-based hgWiggle output has a comment: # This data has been compressed with a minor loss in resolution. Are the other real-world cases that wiggle file users might encounter that would change the source's coordinate type? Thanks, Alex _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
