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brianlee
  Mon May 9 14:43:46 2022 -0700
Adding a link to bedDetail blog in bigBed.html help page

diff --git src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/bigBed.html src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/bigBed.html
index e13afcc..256cf07 100755
--- src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/bigBed.html
+++ src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/bigBed.html
@@ -13,31 +13,34 @@
 files are in an indexed binary format. The main advantage of the bigBed files is that only
 those portions of the files needed to display a particular region are transferred to the Genome 
 Browser server. Because of this, bigBed has considerably faster display performance than
 regular BED when working with large data sets. The bigBed file remains on your local web-accessible 
 server (http, https, or ftp), not on the UCSC server, and only the portion that is needed for the 
 currently displayed chromosomal position is locally cached as a "sparse file". If you do not have
 access to a web-accessible server and  need hosting space for your bigBed files, please see the
 <a href="hgTrackHubHelp.html#Hosting">Hosting</a> section of the Track Hub Help documentation.</p>
 <p>
 Additional indices can be created for the items in a bigBed file to support item search in track 
 hubs. See <a href="#Ex3">Example #3</a> below for an example of how to build an additional 
 index.</p>
 <p>
 See <a href="http://genomewiki.ucsc.edu/index.php/Selecting_a_graphing_track_data_format" 
 target="_blank">this wiki page</a> for help in selecting the graphing track data format that is most
-appropriate for your type of data.</p>
+appropriate for your type of data. To see an example of turning a text-based bedDetail custom track
+into the <code>bigBed</code> format, see this
+<a href="https://genome-blog.soe.ucsc.edu/blog/2021/08/03/how-make-a-bigbed-file-part-1/"
+target="_blank">How to make a bigBed file</a> blog post.</p>
 <p>
 Note that the <code>bedToBigBed</code> utility uses a substantial amount of memory:
 approximately 25% more RAM than the uncompressed BED input file.</p>
 <p>
 
 <a name=quick></a>
 <h2>Quickstart example commands</h2>
 
 It is not hard to create a bigBed file. The following UNIX commands create one on a Linux machine
 (swap macOSX for linux for an Apple environment). The steps are
 explained in more detail in the following sections on this page:
 
 <pre><code>wget https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/examples/bedExample.txt
 wget https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hg19.chrom.sizes
 wget http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/bedToBigBed