Hello everybody, I was just wondering...
Is there a paper that can be cited to describe the "BED 12" format ?
(Of course, I know https://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQformat#format1)
This format is mentioned on this paper (2002). To my knowledge, this is the first time the bed format is mentioned in a scientific publication. I could be wrong because I didn't look through all the publications from the human genome project.
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Generally speaking, you don't need citations for a file format...
Unless it's a paper about file formats, compression, algorithms, etc. rather than biology.