Le Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 06:21:17PM +0200, Liubov Chuprikova a écrit : > > plink1 --bfile examples/genotypes --recode --tab --out genotypes --noweb > > and back to binary, here three files will be created: *.bed, *.fam, *.bim > (those are in examples folder): > > plink1 --file genotypes --make-bed --out genotypes --noweb > > So, the binary can be excluded and replaced by a flat version of the file.
Hi all, indeed, this "bed" file is in binary format; I just found its description on the plink website: http://zzz.bwh.harvard.edu/plink/binary.shtml By the way, it is unfortunate that the ".bed" file extension for "binary PED files" is also used by the – much more frequently encountered – "Browser Extensible Data" files that describe features in coordinate windows on reference DNA sequence files. (I do not know which one came first…) But at the URL above there is a description of the magic number to identify binary PED files. Would there be anybody interested in submitting an entry to the file or the sharedmimeinfo databases ? That might help us and the FTP team if such files appear again in new packages. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Akano, Uruma, Okinawa, Japan
