Hello Shane,

Yes, tab-delimited is expectation. However you will find that for many 
applications/usage of BED format simple "whitespace" is an acceptable 
delimiter.

The official FAQ is located here:
http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQformat.html#format1

Hopefully this helps!

Thanks,

Jen
UCSC Genome Browser Support

On 8/16/10 2:32 PM, S. Neph wrote:
> Does the official BED specification require tabs between fields/columns,
> or are spaces acceptable too?
>
> Thanks,
> Shane
>
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