Extract text from Wiggle track files (WIG)
To convert WIG tracks to another format, you need UCSC Genome Browser or other Data software.
To convert other file formats to the "Genomic Track Format" file type, you need software like UCSC Genome Browser or a similar tool.
The .WIG (Wiggle) format is primarily a text-based file used by the UCSC Genome Browser to display continuous genomic data, such as transcriptomics, GC content, or probability scores. A secondary, completely unrelated use is as a CAD object preview image in Nemetschek Allplan software.
Wiggle files are highly inefficient for large-scale data. Because they are plain text, .WIG files for entire genomes easily exceed several gigabytes, making them impossible to open in standard text editors or browsers without crashing. For the Allplan CAD variant, the format is a proprietary container wrapping a standard image in a ZIP archive, hiding the actual visual data from standard image viewers.
Genomic .WIG files should be converted to BW (BigWig) for compressed, indexed binary storage, or BED for standard annotation data. If you have an Allplan .WIG file, renaming it to ZIP often allows you to extract the underlying JPG or PNG.
Because these formats are specialized, standard online converters usually fail to parse them. Just drag and drop your file to convert.guru to identify the underlying structure. Our tool can inspect the contents, read text-based genomic tracks, or extract standard files from the zipped CAD image variants if supported.
Convert.Guru analyzes your WIG file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted BB, BEDGRAPH, BIGBED and BED files.
If you want to convert WIG file to BED, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT or DB, you can use UCSC Genome Browser or similar software from the "Genomic Data Visualization" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to WIG, try UCSC Genome Browser or another comparable tool in the "Genomic Data Visualization" category.
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