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BCFtools

BCFtools is a set of utilities that manipulate variant calls in the Variant Call Format (VCF) and its binary counterpart BCF. The bundle packages version 1.21.

Usage example

The following command can be executed in the terminal to load the bundle:

module load bcftools

BCFtools can be run as shown below:

bcftools

The bcftools_shell command can be used to access a shell in the bundle.

bcftools_shell

Performance notes

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Community guides and tutorials

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Official site and documentation

Licensing information

BCFtools is licensed under the MIT license.

Primary citation

External guides and resources

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