VCF

File format	VCF
Data type	Variant
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Full text description

VCF is a text file format (most likely stored in a compressed manner). It contains meta-information lines, a header line, and then data lines each containing information about a position in the genome.

There is an option whether to contain genotype information on samples for each position or not.

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• VCF Source code [ edit link ]

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