VCFtools

VCFtools is a software package containing tools to process variant call format (VCF) files., such as reading, writing, merging, and validation. VCFtools also have a general Perl API.

Topic

Genetic variation

Detail

  • Operation: Data handling;Variant filtering;Genetic variation analysis

  • Software interface: Command-line user interface

  • Language: C++;Perl

  • License: GNU General Public License v3

  • Cost: Free

  • Version name: 0.1.16-18

  • Credit: Medical Research Council, UK; British Heart Foundation, Wellcome Trust, National Human Genome Research Institute, Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health, the National Library of Medicine.

  • Input: VCF, BCF

  • Output: VCF, BCF

  • Contact: -

  • Collection: -

  • Maturity: Stable

Publications

  • The variant call format and VCFtools.
  • Danecek P, Auton A, Abecasis G, Albers CA, Banks E, DePristo MA, Handsaker RE, Lunter G, Marth GT, Sherry ST, McVean G, Durbin R; 1000 Genomes Project Analysis Group. The variant call format and VCFtools. Bioinformatics. 2011 Aug 1;27(15):2156-8. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr330. Epub 2011 Jun 7. PMID: 21653522; PMCID: PMC3137218.
  • https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btr330
  • PMID: 21653522
  • PMC: PMC3137218

Download and documentation

< Back to DB search