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VCF

Variant Call Format: A standard text format for storing variant calls. Each line describes a variant's position, reference and alternate alleles, and quality metrics.

Example in a sentence

The pipeline wrote variants to a VCF with FILTER and INFO fields.

Key facts

  • Standard for variant calls; one line per variant.
  • Includes REF, ALT, QUAL, INFO, FORMAT, samples.

Category: File Formats

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