bigWigInfo

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Print out summary information about bigWig file. The summary statistics include mean, min, max, std, and bases covered.

Category

BigWig Manipulation

Usage

bigWigInfo [options] file.bw

Manual

This tool is part of UCSC Genome Browser's utilities.

Required arguments

  • file.bw: input bigwig file

Options

  • -udcDir=/dir/to/cache: place to put cache for remote bigBed/bigWigs
  • -chroms: list all chromosomes and their sizes
  • -zooms: list all zoom levels and their sizes
  • -minMax: list the min and max on a single line

Example

Use bigWigInfo to get the signal range of the the input bigwig file (K562.bigWig):

$ bigWigInfo K562.bigWig
version: 4
isCompressed: yes
isSwapped: 0
primaryDataSize: 559,098,807
primaryIndexSize: 4,876,208
zoomLevels: 10
chromCount: 194
basesCovered: 3,099,905,972
mean: 0.047510
min: 0.000000
max: 117.342003
std: 0.361412

File formats this tool works with
bigWig

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