Outputs
What you get
track_hg38_cas12a/
cas12a.bb 11.7 GB bigBed, 135,867,611 rows x 23 fields
crisprDetails.tab.gz 78.7 GB bgzip off-target lists (243.5 GB uncompressed)
crisprDetails.tab.gz.gzi 60 MB bgzip index
For the hg38 example, 106,017,484 of 135,867,611 guides (78%) carry a stored off-target list
(_offset > 0); the other 22% store none (_offset = 0): non-unique guides, or unique guides already
perfectly specific. Uniqueness itself is read from the unique_TTTV / unique_TTTN columns, see
Reading the track.
Reading a details record
crisprDetails.tab is two columns: per-bucket mismatch counts, then the |-separated off-target
list. Counts are raw absolute totals ([0-mm, 1-mm, 2-mm, 3-mm, 4-mm]), unaffected by chunking.
_mismatchCounts _crisprOfftargets
0,2,0,0,2 chr2;182255206-;466;117|chr15;101948968-;344;94|chr19;83578+;344;94|...
Each off-target is chrom;pos±;encas12a_cfd;ascas12a_cfd (CFD scores x1000). A guide’s bigBed row points
at one such line by uncompressed byte offset (_offset), which the browser resolves through the .gzi.