Hi,
I'm trying to convert some wig tracks to bigWig format.
Actually I have some issues with wigToBigWig. First of all I'm not  
able to use it piping the output of a previous command. Since I have  
to remove "track" lines, it would be great to do something like this:

grep -v track MyWig.wig | wigToBigWig - chromsizesfile output.bw

I guess piping would be nice to merge several chromosome-specific wig  
to a single stream for bigWig conversion.
Also, some tools that generate wig files apparently add some points  
beyond the end of chromosomes. Tipically this happens when a stepsize  
is specified. let's say chrA is 103 bp long, the wig gives point with  
a span of 5 bp, if the last point of this chromosome is, say:

chrA    100     8

wigToBigWig apparently extends the data to position 105 (which is  
beyond 103...). Wouldn't be better to cut data (with a warning  
message) instead of giving up with an error?

Thanks

d
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