Encode Open Chromatin Data Formats

Question

[Darren J. Fitzpatrick]

Hi,

I was looking at some ENCODE data for regions of open chromatin and noticed that some come in a broadPeak format, some in a narrowPeak format and some in both.

Can anyone tell me the difference bewteen these two formats?

Thanks, D.

Answer 1

[matted]

These are the first two Google hits for "broadPeak narrowPeak." They answer your question. In the future you could try checking that too.

Subject: "Difference between narrowPeak and broadPeak format"

https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/pipermail/genome/2012-June/029465.html

http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQformat.html

See "ENCODE broadPeak format" and "ENCODE narrowPeak format"