Details of extension .dist

On this page, we're going to take a closer look at the .dist file extension. We'll explain what exactly a .dist fileformat is and how you can use it. If you're interested in learning more details about this type of file, we'll show you where to find them. And if you ever need to convert .dist files into different formats, we'll give you some tips on how to do that too. Let's see the 3 file formats associated with this file extension!

Contents

• SAM Scoring Data
• Mac OS X Distribution Script
• PLINK Genomic Hamming Distance Matrix

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SAM Scoring Data

The DIST file is a SAM Scoring Data. The Sequence Alignment and Modeling system (SAM) is a collection of flexible software tools for creating, refining, and using linear hidden Markov models for biological sequence analysis.

Category: Data files

Application: SAM

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Mime-type: application/octet-stream

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Related extensions:

.fstat SAM Fragfinder Scoring Data

.kids SAM Kestrel Sequence Id Data

.sel SAM hmmscore Selection Data

.ncomp SAM Dirichlet Mixture Prior Library

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Mac OS X Distribution Script

The DIST file is a Mac OS X Distribution Script.

Category: Other files

Application: Mac OS X

Program name: -

Mime-type: application/octet-stream

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Related extensions:

.distz Mac OS X Distribution Data

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PLINK Genomic Hamming Distance Matrix

The DIST file is a PLINK Genomic Hamming Distance Matrix. PLINK is a free, open-source whole genome association analysis toolset, designed to perform a range of basic, large-scale analyses in a computationally efficient manner.

Category: Data files

Application: PLINK

Program name: -

Mime-type: application/octet-stream

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Related extensions:

.cmh2 PLINK Cochran Mantel Haenszel IxJxK Test Report

.hwe PLINK Hardy-Weinberg Exact Test Statistic Report

.lasso PLINK LASSO Data

.pgen PLINK 2.0 Genomic Data

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The .dist file extension might not only belong to a single type of file, there could be various kinds that use it. Keep in mind that files with the .dist extension may contain various content types. If you have helpful information about this extension, write to us!

The .dist extension is frequently misused

People sometimes confuse the .dist filename extension. Based on the searches on our site, here are the most common misspellings from the past year.

Having trouble opening a .dist file?

If you want to open a .dist file on your computer, you just need to have the appropriate program installed. Incorrect settings for the .dist association can trigger this error.

Windows can't open this file:

File: example.dist

To open this file, Windows needs to know what program you want to use to open it. Windows can go online to look it up automatically, or you can manually select from a list of programs that are installed on your computer.

To change file associations:

• Right-click a file with the extension whose association you want to change, and then click Open With.
• In the Open With dialog box, click the program whith which you want the file to open, or click Browse to locate the program that you want.
• Select the Always use the selected program to open this kind of file check box.

Supported operating systems

Windows Server 2016/2019/2022, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux, Mac OS X, macOS, iOS, Android