I have 2 questions for folks using CGHUB ( https://cghub.ucsc.edu/ ) , the BAM warehouse for TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas - at URL: http://cancergenome.nih.gov/ )
1) What is the bittorrent providing beyond what sftp does? It does not actually appear to be a peer to peer distributed bittorrent file sharing arrangement.
2) Is there a utility to create a) a copy b) the md5sum c) the bam index file and d) a bigwig (or wig) file in one pass though the bam file ? The lower the level of the language the better (i.e C,C++ or something relying heavily on the C libraries).
1) What is the bittorrent providing beyond what sftp does? It does not actually appear to be a peer to peer distributed bittorrent file sharing arrangement.
2) Is there a utility to create a) a copy b) the md5sum c) the bam index file and d) a bigwig (or wig) file in one pass though the bam file ? The lower the level of the language the better (i.e C,C++ or something relying heavily on the C libraries).
