[Genome] WIG format question

[Oakeley, Edward]

Hi there,

 

I have numerical data that I wish to plot as a histogram rather than an
intensity. The best format for this seems to be the WIG format but
unfortunately my data contains blocks of variable width. You can do this
with the SPAN parameter but this means that I need to make a separate
track for each datapoint so my WIG files become huge as each value now
has two lines of "header" information. Can I request that the format be
extended so that instead of being

 

Start signal

 

It becomes:

 

Start signal [span]

 

Where span is optional (that way it won't break existing files)

 

Thanks

 

Edward Oakeley