vcflib contains tools and libraries for dealing with the Variant Call Format
(VCF) which is a flat-file, tab-delimited textual format intended to describe
reference-indexed variations between individuals.
VCF provides a common interchange format for the description of
variation in individuals and populations of samples, and has become the
defacto standard reporting format for a wide array of genomic variant
detectors.
vcflib provides methods to manipulate and interpret sequence
variation as it can be described by VCF. It is both:
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- an API for parsing and operating on records of genomic variation as it can
be described by the VCF format,
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- and a collection of command-line utilities for executing complex
manipulations on VCF files.
The API itself provides a quick and extremely permissive method to
read and write VCF files. Extensions and applications of the library
provided in the included utilities (*.cpp) comprise the vast bulk of the
library’s utility for most users.
filter command |
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metrics command |
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phenotype command |
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genotype command |
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transformation command |
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statistics command |
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See the source code repository at https://github.com/vcflib/vcflib
Copyright 2011-2022 (C) Erik Garrison and vcflib contributors. MIT licensed.
Erik Garrison and vcflib contributors.