TDF Converter

Extract text from track data files (TDF)


Drop or upload your .TDF file
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How to extract text from your TDF file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your TDF file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert TDF to another file type

To convert TDF tracks to another format, you need Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) or other Data software.

Convert a file to TDF

To convert other file formats to the "Track Data Format" file type, you need software like Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) or a similar tool.


About TDF files

A .tdf file primarily functions as a Track Data Format file used by the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) to store tiled, indexed genomic data. However, the .tdf extension is notoriously fragmented. Depending on the source, it can also be a mass spectrometry database from Bruker TimsTOF (stored as a SQLite database), an XML-based tournament file, a trusted Data Format archive by Virtru, or a Microsoft SQL Server trace definition. This fragmentation makes .tdf files incredibly frustrating to manage. Because there is no universal standard, double-clicking a .tdf usually results in an error or opens the wrong software. Genomic .tdf files are binary and require specialized bioinformatics tools, while Bruker files lock your data inside proprietary mass spectrometry environments. Many of these files are completely unreadable in web browsers and trap your scientific or tabular data inside rigid containers. To make this data accessible and usable across different platforms, conversion is strictly necessary. For genomic data, converting to BED, WIG, or standard CSV formats allows for easier analysis in data pipelines. For tabular and SQL variants, converting to TXT, CSV, or XML is the most pragmatic solution.

Convert.Guru analyzes your TDF file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted SETTINGSS, PDF, TIF, RTF, HTML, TXT, JPG, ZIP, SDOCX and BIGWIG files.


FAQ

If you want to convert TDF file to PDF, INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, ENV or PROPERTIES, you can use Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) or similar software from the "Scientific and Tabular Data Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert ZSHRC, CONF, RCFILE, GITCONFIG, RC, PLIST, BASHRC, CONFIG, PROFILE, INI, PREFS or CFG files to TDF, try Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) or another comparable tool in the "Scientific and Tabular Data Storage" category.



The TDF Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our TDF converter.