The variant call format and VCFtools.

Resource Type:

Publication

Publication Type:

Journal Article

Title:

The variant call format and VCFtools.

Authors:

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

Series Name:

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)

Journal Abbreviation:

Bioinformatics

Volume:

Issue:

Page Numbers:

2156-8

Publication Year:

2011

Publication Date:

2011 Aug 01

URL:

https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btr330

DOI:

10.1093/bioinformatics/btr330

ISSN:

1367-4811

EISSN:

1367-4811

Cross Reference:


PMID	21653522

Citation:

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 (Oxford, England). 2011 Aug 01; 27(15):2156-8.

Abstract:

SUMMARY
The variant call format (VCF) is a generic format for storing DNA polymorphism data such as SNPs, insertions, deletions and structural variants, together with rich annotations. VCF is usually stored in a compressed manner and can be indexed for fast data retrieval of variants from a range of positions on the reference genome. The format was developed for the 1000 Genomes Project, and has also been adopted by other projects such as UK10K, dbSNP and the NHLBI Exome Project. VCFtools is a software suite that implements various utilities for processing VCF files, including validation, merging, comparing and also provides a general Perl API.

AVAILABILITY
http://vcftools.sourceforge.net

Publication Model:

Print-Electronic

Language:

English

Language Abbr:

eng

Journal Country:

England