Browser Extensible Data (BED)

8. Browser Extensible Data (BED)#

A BED file has 3 to 12 columns, the first three 3 columns are mandatory.

Column NO.

Column Name

Description

1

chromosome

name of chromosome

2

start position

start pos of the feature

3

end position

end pos of the feature

4

name

name of the feature

5

score

a numerical to represent the significance of the feature

6

strand

the strand information where the feature located

7

thick start

8

thick end

9

RGB

10

Block count

11

Block size

12

Block start