Converts a LAV formatted file to BED format lav_to_bed.py $lav_file $bed_file1 $bed_file2 **Syntax** This tool converts a LAV formatted file to the BED format. - **LAV format** LAV is an alignment format developed by Webb Miller's group at Penn State University. It is the primary output format for BLASTZ. - **BED format** Browser Extensible Data format was designed at UCSC for displaying data tracks in the Genome Browser. ----- **Example** - Convert LAV format:: #:lav s { "/galaxy/data/hg16/seq/chr19.nib" 1 63811651 0 1 "/galaxy/data/mm5/seq/chr11.nib" 1 121648857 0 1 } h { "> hg16.chr19" "> mm5.chr11 (reverse complement)" } a { s 3500 b 3001012 70568380 e 3001075 70568443 l 3001012 70568380 3001075 70568443 81 } a { s 3900 b 3008279 70573976 e 3008357 70574054 l 3008279 70573976 3008357 70574054 78 } #:eof - To two BED formatted files:: chr19 3001011 3001075 hg16_0 0 + chr19 3008278 3008357 hg16_1 0 + **and**:: chr11 70568379 70568443 mm5_0 0 + chr11 70573975 70574054 mm5_1 0 +