GenomeComb

Bcol

Format

cg bcol subcommand ?options? ...

Summary

several commands for managing bcol files

Description

The bcol command encompasses several subcommands for managing bcol files. (files for storing data (numbers) in an efficient binary format). The subcommands can be run using "cg bcol subcommand ?options? ..." as well as "cg bcol_subcommand ?options? ..."

Suboptions

make
make bcol files based on tab delimited data
get
get a number of values from a bcol file
table
output bcol files as tab delimited data
size
returns the size of a bcol file
update
converts the old bcol format to the new (that can contain data for different chromosomes or alleles)

Category

Format Conversion