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    $\begingroup$ Yep and the reason for this is because we store everything internally as zero based coordinates but then display everything in a 1-based format. For more information see the following blog post: genome.ucsc.edu/blog/… $\endgroup$ Commented Mar 19, 2018 at 16:44
  • $\begingroup$ @ChristopherLee thank you! I had actually written out an answer stating that it must be the position after since bed files start at 0 and then thought to check, just to make sure, and was very much surprised that it was actually the position before! $\endgroup$ Commented Mar 19, 2018 at 16:53