How to convert .pairs to .tsv

[kayarimagenomics]

Hi,

Is there an easy way to convert a .pairs file to a .tsv file while keeping the information prepended by colons (:).

Thank you !

[Phlya]

I think if you remove the header, you end up with a tsv file... Not sure why you say colons might be a problem?

Untested, but should work, if you don't have # symbols in the read names or in chromosome names...
zcat pairs.gz | grep -v '#' > pairs.txt