diff --git a/tools/bigwig_outlier_bed/bigwig_outlier_bed.py b/tools/bigwig_outlier_bed/bigwig_outlier_bed.py
index c6f4a0bbec9..1c41eebdf6d 100644
--- a/tools/bigwig_outlier_bed/bigwig_outlier_bed.py
+++ b/tools/bigwig_outlier_bed/bigwig_outlier_bed.py
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ def __init__(self, args):
         self.bedouthilo = args.bedouthilo
         self.tableoutfile = args.tableoutfile
         self.bedwin = args.minwin
+        self.bedoutzero = args.bedoutzero
         self.qlo = None
         self.qhi = None
         if args.outbeds != "outtab":
@@ -133,7 +134,7 @@ def __init__(self, args):
             self.bwlabels += ["Nolabel"] * (nbw - nlab)
         self.makeBed()
 
-    def processVals(self, bw, isTop):
+    def processVals(self, bw, isTop, isZero):
         """
         idea from http://gregoryzynda.com/python/numpy/contiguous/interval/2019/11/29/contiguous-regions.html
         Fast segmentation into regions by taking np.diff on the boolean array of over (under) cutpoint indicators in bwex.
@@ -143,6 +144,8 @@ def processVals(self, bw, isTop):
         """
         if isTop:
             bwex = np.r_[False, bw >= self.bwtop, False]  # extend with 0s
+        elif isZero:
+            bwex = np.r_[False, bw == 0, False]  # extend with 0s
         else:
             bwex = np.r_[False, bw <= self.bwbot, False]
         bwexd = np.diff(bwex)
@@ -190,6 +193,7 @@ def makeTableRow(self, bw, bwlabel, chr):
     def makeBed(self):
         bedhi = []
         bedlo = []
+        bedzero = []
         restab = []
         bwlabels = self.bwlabels
         bwnames = self.bwnames
@@ -229,9 +233,24 @@ def makeBed(self):
                         + histo
                     )
                 bw = bw[~np.isnan(bw)]  # some have NaN if parts of a contig not covered
+                if self.bedoutzero is not None:
+                    bwzero = self.processVals(bw, isTop=False, isZero=True)
+                    for j, seg in enumerate(bwzero):
+                        seglen = seg[1] - seg[0]
+                        if seglen >= self.bedwin:
+                            score = seglen
+                            bedzero.append(
+                                (
+                                    chr,
+                                    seg[0],
+                                    seg[1],
+                                    "%s_%d" % (bwlabel, score),
+                                    score,
+                                )
+                            )
                 if self.qhi is not None:
                     self.bwtop = np.quantile(bw, self.qhi)
-                    bwhi = self.processVals(bw, isTop=True)
+                    bwhi = self.processVals(bw, isTop=True, isZero=False)
                     for j, seg in enumerate(bwhi):
                         seglen = seg[1] - seg[0]
                         if seglen >= self.bedwin:
@@ -247,7 +266,7 @@ def makeBed(self):
                             )
                 if self.qlo is not None:
                     self.bwbot = np.quantile(bw, self.qlo)
-                    bwlo = self.processVals(bw, isTop=False)
+                    bwlo = self.processVals(bw, isTop=False, isZero=False)
                     for j, seg in enumerate(bwlo):
                         seglen = seg[1] - seg[0]
                         if seg[1] - seg[0] >= self.bedwin:
@@ -280,6 +299,9 @@ def makeBed(self):
                 t.write(stable)
                 t.write("\n")
         some = False
+        if self.outbeds in ["outzero"]:
+            self.writeBed(bedzero, self.bedoutzero)
+            some = True
         if self.qlo:
             if self.outbeds in ["outall", "outlo", "outlohi"]:
                 self.writeBed(bedlo, self.bedoutlo)
@@ -308,6 +330,7 @@ def makeBed(self):
     a("--bedouthi", default=None)
     a("--bedoutlo", default=None)
     a("--bedouthilo", default=None)
+    a("--bedoutzero", default=None)
     a("-w", "--bigwig", nargs="+")
     a("-n", "--bigwiglabels", nargs="+")
     a("-o", "--outbeds", default="outhilo", help="optional high and low combined bed")
diff --git a/tools/bigwig_outlier_bed/bigwig_outlier_bed.xml b/tools/bigwig_outlier_bed/bigwig_outlier_bed.xml
index 8750a174a39..963429a1f86 100644
--- a/tools/bigwig_outlier_bed/bigwig_outlier_bed.xml
+++ b/tools/bigwig_outlier_bed/bigwig_outlier_bed.xml
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-<tool name="Bigwig extremes to bed features" id="bigwig_outlier_bed" version="@TOOL_VERSION@+galaxy@VERSION_SUFFIX@" profile="22.05">
+<tool name="Bigwig outliers to bed features" id="bigwig_outlier_bed" version="@TOOL_VERSION@+galaxy@VERSION_SUFFIX@" profile="22.05">
   <description>Writes high and low bigwig runs as features in a bed file</description>
   <macros>
   <token name="@TOOL_VERSION@">0.2.0</token>
   <token name="@PYTHON_VERSION@">3.12.3</token>
-  <token name="@VERSION_SUFFIX@">1</token>
+  <token name="@VERSION_SUFFIX@">2</token>
   </macros>
   <edam_topics>
       <edam_topic>topic_0157</edam_topic>
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@
 #if $outbeds in ['outlo', 'outall', 'outlohi']:
   --bedoutlo '$bedoutlo'
 #end if
+#if $outbeds in ['outzero']:
+  --bedoutzero '$bedoutzero'
+#end if
 --minwin '$minwin'
 #if $qhi:
 --qhi '$qhi'
@@ -67,9 +70,10 @@
       <option value="outhilo" selected="true">Make 1 bed output with both low and high regions</option>
       <option value="outhi">Make 1 bed output with high regions only</option>
       <option value="outlo">Make 1 bed output with low regions only</option>
+      <option value="outzero">Make 1 bed output for regions with contiguous zero values only</option>
       <option value="outall">Make 3 bed outputs with low and high together in one, high in one and low in the other</option>
       <option value="outlohi">Make 2 bed outputs with high in one and low in the other</option>
-      <option value="outtab">NO bed outputs. Report bigwig value distribution only</option>
+      <option value="outtab">NO bed outputs. Report bigwig value distribution table only</option>
     </param>
     <param name="tableout" type="select" label="Write a table showing contig statistics for each bigwig input" help="">
       <option value="donotmake">Do not create this report</option>
@@ -86,6 +90,9 @@
     <data name="bedoutlo" format="bed" label="Low bed">
       <filter>outbeds in ["outall", "outlohi", "outlo"]</filter>
     </data>
+    <data name="bedoutzero" format="bed" label="Zeros only bed">
+      <filter>outbeds in ["outzero"]</filter>
+    </data>
     <data name="tableoutfile" format="txt" label="Contig statistics">
       <filter>tableout == "create" or outbeds == "outtab"</filter>
     </data>
@@ -150,9 +157,15 @@
       <param name="qlo" value="0.5"/>
       <param name="tableout" value="create"/>
     </test>
-
-
-
+    <test expect_num_outputs="1">
+      <output name="bedoutzero" value="bedoutzero_sample" compare="diff" lines_diff="0"/>
+      <param name="outbeds" value="outzero"/>
+      <param name="bigwig" value="fake.bigwig,bigwig_sample"/>
+      <param name="minwin" value="2"/>
+      <param name="qhi" value="0.5"/>
+      <param name="qlo" value="0.5"/>
+      <param name="tableout" value="donotmake"/>
+    </test>
   </tests>
   <help><![CDATA[
 
diff --git a/tools/bigwig_outlier_bed/test-data/bedoutzero_sample b/tools/bigwig_outlier_bed/test-data/bedoutzero_sample
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..523f316b17b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bigwig_outlier_bed/test-data/bedoutzero_sample
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Merlin	0	9	bigwig_sample_9	9
+Merlin	70049	180929	bigwig_sample_110880	110880