What Does Bed Stand For?
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GFF is for Generic Feature Format, GTF is for Gene transfer format. Is BED (a la UCSC) also an acronym?

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Is it Binary PED (BED) format, where PED is pedigree...

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Browser Extensible Data

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Ah...found a mention here: http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~kent/gbd.html.

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Yeah, both UCSC and Ensembl have documentation pages dedicated to the BED format without saying what it stands for on that page. Word-of-mouth ... definitely the way to go. :)

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Is this passed by word-of-mouth, or is it documented somewhere?

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Some useful links on the Browser Extensible Data (BED) format

UCSC BED documentation

Ensembl BED documentation

UCSC users pages

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