f4ace97438e173daf68c76153a4481de73879798
jcasper
  Fri Nov 8 16:46:02 2019 -0800
Initial commit of supporting docs for hic track type, refs #22316

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   <div class="col-md-6">
     <ul>
       <li><a href="#format5.2">CRAM format</a></li>
       <li><a href="#format9">GenePred table format</a></li>
       <li><a href="#format3">GFF format</a></li>
       <li><a href="#format4">GTF format</a></li>
       <li><a href="#format20">HAL format</a></li>
       <li><a href="#format22">interact and bigInteract format</a></li>
       <li><a href="#format5">MAF format</a></li>
       <li><a href="#format6.5">Microarray format</a></li>
       <li><a href="../goldenPath/help/net.html">Net format</a></li>
       <li><a href="#format10">Personal Genome SNP format</a></li>
       <li><a href="#format2">PSL format</a></li>
       <li><a href="#format10.1">VCF format</a></li>
       <li><a href="#format6">WIG format</a></li>
+      <li><a href="#format23">hic format</a></li>
     </ul>
   </div>
 </div>
 <a name="ENCODE"></a>
 <h6>ENCODE-specific formats</h6>
 <ul>
   <li><a href="#format13">ENCODE broadPeak format</a></li>
   <li><a href="#format14">ENCODE gappedPeak format</a></li>
   <li><a href="#format12">ENCODE narrowPeak format</a></li>
   <li><a href="#format16">ENCODE pairedTagAlign format</a></li>
   <li><a href="#format17">ENCODE peptideMapping format</a></li>
   <li><a href="#format11">ENCODE RNA elements format</a></li>
   <li><a href="#format15">ENCODE tagAlign format</a></li>
 </ul>
 <h6>Download-only formats</h6>
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   <strong>peptideRepeatCount</strong> - Indicates how many times this same hit was observed.</li>
 </ol>
 
 <a name="format18"></a>
 <h2>Fasta format</h2>
 <p>
 Click <a href="http://genetics.bwh.harvard.edu/pph/FASTA.html" target="_blank">here</a> for 
 information about fasta format.</p>
 
 <a name="format19"></a>
 <h2>FastQ format</h2>
 <p> 
 Click <a href="http://maq.sourceforge.net/fastq.shtml" target="_blank">here</a> for information
 about fastq format.</p>
 
+<a name="format23"></a>
+<h2>hic format</h2>
+<p>
+Hic files are binary files that store contact matrices from chromatin conformation experiments.
+This format is useful for displaying interactions at a scale and depth that exceeds what can be
+easily visualized with the interact and bigInteract formats.  See the
+<a href="../goldenPath/help/hic.html">hic Track Format</a> help page for more information on
+creating and configuring hic tracks.  More information on the hic format itself can be found in the
+documentation on <a href="https://github.com/aidenlab/juicer/wiki/Data/#hic-files"
+target="_blank">github</a>.  The hic format was created by the <a href="https://www.aidenlab.org"
+target="_blank">Aiden Lab</a> at <a href="https://www.bcm.edu"
+target="_blank">Baylor College of Medicine</a>.
+</p>
+
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