my $file = $matrixPath.'/'.$info{$transcriptName}{'PATH'};
    my $fileSize = -s $file;
    open IN, $file or die "Can't open inputfile $file $!";
    binmode(IN);
    my $buffer;
    my $nRows = $info{$transcriptName}{'CNT'};
    print "reading file $file with size $fileSize with nCols $nCols and nrows $nRows\n";
    while ( my $read = sysread(IN, $buffer, $fileSize)) {
        my ($data)  = unpack("C*", $read);
        print " data is ".Dumper $data;
        print sprintf("%08b", $data)."\n";

    }
    close IN;