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titleConvert GFF to BED with BioITeam script
/work/projects/BioITeam/common/script/gtf_to_bed.pl sc_genes.gff 1 \
  > sc_genes.converted.bed

The program reads the input file twice – once to gather all the attribute names, and then a second time to write the attribute values in well-defined columns. You'll see output like this:

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To find out what the resulting columns are, look at the header line out the output BED file:

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head -1 sc_genes.converted.bed 

For me the resulting 16 attributes are as follows (they may have a different order for you). I've numbered them below for convenience

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titleConverted BED attributes
 1. chrom          2. start   3. end     4. featureType  5. length  6. strand
 7. source         8. frame   9. Alias  10. ID          11. Name   12. Note
13. Ontology_term 14. dbxref 15. gene   16. orf_classification

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