Hi Luvina,

thank you very much for the detailed information on liftOver. Regarding the 
multiple option, I noticed the following:
I try to lift BED files of the following format between assemblies:
<chr>   <start> <end>   <name>  <dataValue>
The output of liftOver is a BED file as follows:
<chr>   <start> <end>   <name>  <multiplicity>
So, liftOver discards the data value in column 5 and replaces it with the 
value of the multiplicity for the mapped region (i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4 and so on for 
multiple output regions). Is it possible to set a liftOver parameter in order 
to get a file like
<chr>   <start> <end>   <name>  <dataValue>     <multiplicity>
Since this is still a 6 column BED file, it should not interfere with the 
restrictions of the multiple option?
Thanks for your help.

Best,
Peter

On Tuesday 29 November 2011 20:49:49 Luvina Guruvadoo wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> One of our engineers mentioned the BED 4-6 option was added to the
> multiple option because this was requested by ENCODE users. However for
> BED12, he says "[looking at the code] if the range find on the chain
> returns two or more top-scoring chains of the same score, it calls it
> "duplicated-in-new" and returns without outputting anything else. In
> theory this could be relaxed so that multiple qualifying chains would be
> output. Obviously, it might be harder for the user to analyze the
> results if there are many chains. I suppose a different way would be to
> let the user choose the topN high-scoring chains as a way to deal with
> regions with many hundreds or thousands of hits."
> 
> Please contact us again at [email protected] if you have any further
> questions.
> 
> ---
> Luvina Guruvadoo
> UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
> 
> On 11/17/2011 6:34 AM, Peter Ebert wrote:
> > Hi,
> > liftOver informed me that, when using the -multiple option, it can only
> > use files in BED4/5/6 format as input. Is that a technical (=
> > programming related) limitation or is there a more complicated
> > explanation? It would be nice if someone could elaborate on that issue.
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Cheers,
> > Peter
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