input format for intervals: chrX 1 6000 chrX 6045 6302 chrX 7204 8239 ...etc until all 155e6 positions have been covered. my $filtered_sites = "/Users/logancurtis-whitchurch/Dropbox/thesis_folder/galaxy_chrX_data/filtered_chrX_rawdata.interval"; ;; open (INTERVAL, "<$filtered_sites") or die "can't open $filtered_sites"; ;; my @interval = ; ;; close (INTERVAL); ;; chomp (@interval); ;; my @site_info= split(/\t/, $interval[$count]); ;; my $start = $site_info[1]; ;; my $end = $site_info[2]; ;;