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 > > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
