plink-bed-format - Binary data format

plink-bed-format is a binary data format created in 2007.

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Primary representation of genotype calls at biallelic variants. Do not confuse this with the UCSC Genome Browser's BED format, which is totally different. Used in plink.

plink-bed-format website
plink-bed-format first developed in https://github.com/samtools
file extensions for plink-bed-format include bed
Read more about plink-bed-format on the web: 1.

Example from the web:

0x6c 0x1b 0x01 0xdc 0x0f 0xe7 0x0f 0x6b 0x01