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Downloading ENCODE regulation data in .bed format by cell line

So, I have a list of variants I want to annotate based off several databases in .bed format. The rest of the databases I want to include are off of ENCODE, but despite my searches I cannot for the love of my life download the data off ENCODE based off cell line.

I always end up at this page, which provides me ALL the databases, but not by cell line. I found a search function here, but for some reason, whenever I run a search, it doesn't return any results.

I am looking for .bed files listing sites of DNA methylation, DNase-seq, Chip seq (TFBS and histone modifications) for HepG2, K562, GM12878, and Human Skeletal Muscle cell lines each.

I am basically asking: How can I get these off ENCODE? Thanks.

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2 answers

You go to the Encode Data Matrix for hg19 -> Click on the green boxes -> You will see a lot of tracks under the column name Track Name -> There is a small arrow at the end of the tracks which will expand the track, click on it -> You will get the links to narrowpeaks.bed.gz or broadpeaks.bed.gz which you can directly download. You might not get every data that you need though.

Thank you for the nearly instantaneous reply! Saved me a lot of time looking where to download the databases

Actually, I have a quick followup question: How can one download all of the chip-seq data quickly? It is extraordinarily tedious to download each of the hundred histone modificiation and TFBS files one by one

If you are interested in BigBed files by data type, here is a link to fdrPeaks as a pointer: fdrPeaks.bb I think the link address is informative as to explore similar datasets.

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