====== BioGRID ORCS Download Format Details ======
BioGRID ORCS provides several file formats for download via our **[[https://downloads.thebiogrid.org/BioGRID-ORCS|download page]]**. Each file format is outlined below with information on what types of information is available in each column and situations where you might want to use each.

=== Recommended File Formats (recommended for all new projects) ===
  * [[orcs:downloads:screen_index|Index File (*.index.tab.txt)]] - A screen index file containing annotation about the screen itself (this format accompanies [[orcs:downloads:screen|screen.tab]] and [[orcs:downloads:matrix|matrix.tab]] files.
  * [[orcs:downloads:screen|Screen File (*.screen.tab.txt)]] - A tab delimited file for containing a single screen worth of score values
  * [[orcs:downloads:matrix|Matrix File (*.matrix.tab.txt)]] - A matrix containing multiple screens and multiple score values lined up with common gene names

=== REST Service Only File Formats ===
  * [[orcs:downloads:json|JSON]] - JavaScript Object Notation formatted files.