Dear galaxy-devs, What would be the galaxy way to convert tabular data (e.g. the tabular output of BLAST or infernal) into bed or alignments? For bed it seems like that cutting the columns and using awk to adapt the positions to the bed definitions and switch coordinates for the reverse strand matches would do the job. But, in particular using awk seems to be "end user incompatible" :) What would be the best idea: Provide a workflow or a tool doing the job? Initially I had hoped that I can simply change the data type to bed and assign the columns in the attributes tab (but I forgot about the coordinate adjustments). Anyway there has been a problem: Then the preview in the history shows that the columns are assigned (except for the score column). It looks like this: 1.Chrom 2 3.Name 4 5 6 7 8.Start 9.End 10.Strand 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 But in "Show Data" the columns are still taken as is, e.g. 2nd column is start ... When I try to use the File in BedTools Merge it fails with the message that it is not a bed file. Thanks for all the help. Best, Matthias -- ------------------------------------------- Matthias Bernt Bioinformatics Service Molekulare Systembiologie (MOLSYB) Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH - UFZ/ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany Phone +49 341 235 482296, m.bernt(a)ufz.de, www.ufz.de Sitz der Gesellschaft/Registered Office: Leipzig Registergericht/Registration Office: Amtsgericht Leipzig Handelsregister Nr./Trade Register Nr.: B 4703 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats/Chairman of the Supervisory Board: MinDirig Wilfried Kraus Wissenschaftlicher Geschäftsführer/Scientific Managing Director: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Georg Teutsch Administrative Geschäftsführerin/ Administrative Managing Director: Prof. Dr. Heike Graßmann -------------------------------------------