Bcftools

Jul 20, 2023

Tools for manipulating next-generation sequencing data

BCFtools is a set of utilities that manipulate variant calls in the Variant Call Format VCF and its binary counterpart BCF. All commands work transparently with both VCFs and BCFs, both uncompressed and BGZF-compressed.



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