What Does Bed Stand For?

Question

[Daniel Standage]

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

[kumar.vinod81]

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

Answer 1

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

Browser Extensible Data

[Daniel Standage]

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

[Malachi Griffith]

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. :)

[Daniel Standage]

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

Answer 2

[Malachi Griffith]

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

UCSC BED documentation

Ensembl BED documentation

UCSC users pages