<p>No, count-level data doesn't have the base-level resolution that is required in order to be usefully visualised on a genome browser. You need a BAM file (or raw FASTQ files that can be used to generate a BAM file) in order to do that.</p>
<p>&quot;No&quot; isn't completely correct: it'd be <em>possible</em> to take gene counts and information about gene annotation boundaries to shoehorn them into a BedGraph / BigWig file, but whatever comes out the other end of that isn't going to be a good representation of reality.</p>

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2020-07-08T02:21:10.283Z
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gringer
<p>I've downloaded neuronal RNA seq data from GEO. The files are in .counts.txt format. Could I convert them to bigwig? If so, how?</p>

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2020-07-07T22:25:55.207Z
Hi @Samir ... you've got the files from here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/ cool, could you just fill in details about viewing and bigWig format for the rest of us?
M__
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Hi Michael. I want to load RNA seq data into HiGlass, a browser that I use to look at my HiC data. I have previously loaded RNA seq bigWig files into HiGlass. I just don't know if there is a way to load the text file format into HiGlass, so I wanted to know if I can convert the format to bigWig.
Samir
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2020-07-08T11:29:22.433Z
can you provide the GEO accession ? Sometimes they do provide bigwig but i suspect it's not very useful for RNAseq unless there's something specific u need
StupidWolf
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2020-07-08T15:36:38.603Z
Hi, this is the GEO accession: GSE102838
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RNA seq .counts.txt to bigwig conversion
# RNA seq .counts.txt to bigwig conversion

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-07-07)

I've downloaded neuronal RNA seq data from GEO. The files are in .counts.txt format. Could I convert them to bigwig? If so, how?

**Tags:** rna-seq, rna, bigwig
> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Hi @Samir ... you've got the files from here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/ cool, could you just fill in details about viewing and bigWig format for the rest of us?  
> **username_0**: Hi Michael. I want to load RNA seq data into HiGlass, a browser that I use to look at my HiC data. I have previously loaded RNA seq bigWig files into HiGlass. I just don't know if there is a way to load the text file format into HiGlass, so I wanted to know if I can convert the format to bigWig.  
> **username_2**: can you provide the GEO accession ? Sometimes they do provide bigwig but i suspect it's not very useful for RNAseq unless there's something specific u need  
> **username_0**: Hi, this is the GEO accession: GSE102838  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2020-07-08. Score: 1

No, count-level data doesn't have the base-level resolution that is required in order to be usefully visualised on a genome browser. You need a BAM file (or raw FASTQ files that can be used to generate a BAM file) in order to do that.

"No" isn't completely correct: it'd be *possible* to take gene counts and information about gene annotation boundaries to shoehorn them into a BedGraph / BigWig file, but whatever comes out the other end of that isn't going to be a good representation of reality.


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