> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.imaps.goodwright.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.imaps.goodwright.com/fundamentals/bioinformatics-file-types.md).

# Bioinformatics file types

Here we provide a short primer so that you can understand the file types you will commonly encounter using iMaps, but also in bioinformatics at large.

**fastq**

**sam/bam**

**bed**

**bedgraph**

**bigWig**

**gtf**

**"genome index"**

**csv/tsv**