Hi Robert,
It's probably fine, although you lose the benefit of datatype sniffing. The
binary detection is there to prevent abuse on our public site. This error
should really only occur if there's a non-ASCII character in your bed file, so
you may want to check it programatically, e.g.
Hi Nate,
I don't think that it does. We get the bed files from our GWAS pipelines.
We were able to upload the file by adding 'bed' to the list of
unsniffable_binary_formats in binary.py and manually specifying the format.
Do you think this could cause problems later?
-Rob
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012
Hi Rob,
The 'bed' datatype in Galaxy refers to UCSC's Browser Extensible Data format
(http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQformat.html#format1).
Is this a binary PLINK .bed file
(http://pngu.mgh.harvard.edu/~purcell/plink/binary.shtml)? If so, you may want
to consider looking at/using the 'pbed'
