What it does

Sorts a feature file by chromosome and other criteria.

It should be noted that sortBed is merely a convenience utility, as the UNIX sort utility will sort BED files more quickly while using less memory. For example, UNIX sort will sort a BED file by chromosome then by start position in the following manner: sort -k 1,1 -k2,2 -n a.bed

This tool is part of the bedtools package from the Quinlan laboratory.

Citation

If you use this tool in Galaxy, please cite:

Bjoern A. Gruening (2014), Galaxy wrapper