1. A Bed file (.Bed) is a tab-delimited text file that defines a feature track

2. The convert command in the Biom-format project can be used to convert between Biom and tab-delimited table formats

3. Each item in a tab-delimited data feed must appear on a single line without extra tabs or line breaks.

4. If the spreadsheet looks strange, make sure that you specify that you're opening a tab-delimited file using UTF-16 encoding.

5. Also, the imported text will be tab delimited which will require that you use a font that Columnates the text properly (such as Courier)

6. This is useful for several reasons: converting Biom format tables to tab-delimited tables for easy viewing in programs such as Excel; converting between sparse and dense Biom formats (note: dense is only supported in Biom-format 1