Hi Eduardo,

Yes, you would have to remove the track and browser lines from the 
files. One of our engineers has provided this help:

egrep -v "^track|^browser" yourfiles* > oneNewFile

Then run wigToBigWig with the new file you created.

Please contact the mail list ([email protected]) again if you have any 
further questions.

Katrina Learned
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group


On 9/9/11 9:00 AM, Eduardo Gade Gusmão wrote:
> Hello, I got a question concerning wig files and wig to bigwig conversion.
>
> The program I am using outputs .wig files for each chromosome. I want to
> merge them to a single wig so I can use your binary "wigToBigWig" program to
> convert it into bigWig to save space. There is a tool that do this
> conversion? If not, I can write a script, but I don't know if I should
> remove the declaration lines of each chromosome file (a declaration line
> would be "fixedStep chrom=chr1 start=10469 step=1"). In some forums I have
> seen that the users did remove this declaration line, but as my file is
> fixedStep its does seems to me a little strange to remove it. So what is the
> correct way of putting many wigs from different chromosomes together?
>
> Thank you!
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