Technical specification for the bigWig file format

• kent

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I'm looking to write some low level tools that interface with bigWig files and I'm having difficulty finding a technical summary of exactly what the contents of the file format are. I've been reading the KentTools source code in C which has modules to create and edit BWs. I've found a brief description of the sections and headers in bwgInternal.h here but the lower level modules for actually writing to disk are less well documented. I'm very happy to keep digging through the code and experimenting but was wondering if anyone knows of a better summary of what the various parts of the file expect, in English rather than in code. Thanks.

• libBigWig

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  A C library for handling bigWig files

And that is using libBigWig which specifically references Kent Utils.

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• bbi-js

  1 7 6.7 TypeScript

  Parser for bigwig and bigbed files

  

in the javascript world I created https://github.com/GMOD/bbi-js to parse bigwig and bigbed (it's a little overly complicated but could be a reference)

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