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+Convert a BAM file into a BigWig coverage file. This can be used directly from 
+Galaxy for display at UCSC. The advantage over standard Wiggle format is that 
+the data is stored in a compressed format and can be retrieved by genome
+region. This allows you to view regions of arbitrarily large Wiggle file data
+at UCSC while avoiding the upload costs.
+
+The latest version of the bam_to_wiggle.py script is available at:
+
+https://github.com/chapmanb/bcbb/blob/master/nextgen/scripts/bam_to_wiggle.py
+
+Place the script in the same directory as the XML configuration file, or
+provide a soft link to it.
+
+This requires:
+
+Python2, version 2.6 or better
+pysam (http://code.google.com/p/pysam/)
+wigToBigWig from UCSC (http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/)