1vcf(5) Bioinformatics formats vcf(5)
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6 vcf - Variant Call Format
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9 The Variant Call Format (VCF) is a TAB-delimited format with each data
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12 1 CHROM CHROMosome name
13 2 POS the left-most POSition of the variant
14 3 ID unique variant IDentifier
15 4 REF the REFerence allele
16 5 ALT the ALTernate allele(s) (comma-separated)
17 6 QUAL variant/reference QUALity
18 7 FILTER FILTERs applied
19 8 INFO INFOrmation related to the variant (semicolon-separated)
20 9 FORMAT FORMAT of the genotype fields (optional; colon-separated)
21 10+ SAMPLE SAMPLE genotypes and per-sample information (optional)
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23 The following table gives the INFO tags used by samtools and bcftools.
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25 AF1 Max-likelihood estimate of the site allele frequency (AF) of the
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28 DP Raw read depth (without quality filtering) (int)
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30 DP4 # high-quality reference forward bases, ref reverse, alternate
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33 FQ Consensus quality. Positive: sample genotypes different; nega‐
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36 MQ Root-Mean-Square mapping quality of covering reads (int)
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38 PC2 Phred probability of AF in group1 samples being larger
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41 PCHI2 Posterior weighted chi^2 P-value between group1 and group2 sam‐
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44 PV4 P-value for strand bias, baseQ bias, mapQ bias and tail distance
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47 QCHI2 Phred-scaled PCHI2 (int)
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49 RP # permutations yielding a smaller PCHI2 (int)
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51 CLR Phred log ratio of genotype likelihoods with and without the
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54 UGT Most probable genotype configuration without the trio constraint
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57 CGT Most probable configuration with the trio constraint (string)
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59 VDB Tests variant positions within reads. Intended for filtering
60 RNA-seq artifacts around splice sites (float)
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62 RPB Mann-Whitney rank-sum test for tail distance bias (float)
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64 HWE Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium test (Wigginton et al) (float)
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67 https://github.com/samtools/hts-specs
68 The full VCF/BCF file format specification
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70 A note on exact tests of Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
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75htslib August 2013 vcf(5)