[Genome] Bemused by an "invalid signed number" error in liftOver

[Hiram Clawson]

Good Afternoon Melissa:

That score column is an integer, not a float.  Only digits 0-9 allowed.

--Hiram

Melissa Cline wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was trying to use the liftOver utility to translate some mm9 coordinates
> to mm8.  I got an error on the following line:
> 
> chr10   102471840       102471903       Homeo_OAR(PF03826)
> 2.1e-09-       102471840       102471903       0       1       63
> 0
> (note that all fields should be tab-delimited, whether or not the tabs have
> been preserved as tabs).
> 
> When I enter this line into the "Paste in data:" field on the Lift Genome
> Annotations form, I get the following response:
> 
> invalid signed number: "2.1e-09"
> 
> 
> Why is this number invalid?  The BED file documentation says that the score
> field should contain a number between 0 and 1000, which it is, so I'm
> honestly unclear on what's wrong.  What do I need to do to fix this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Melissa
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