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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 description

metrics command description

phenotype command description

genotype command description

transformation command description

statistics command description

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.

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