Transcription of The Variant Call Format (VCF) Version 4.2 Specification
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The Variant Call Format (VCF) Version Specification (Superseded by the VCF Specification introduced in October 2015)23 Aug 2022 The master Version of this document can be found printing is Version 6a6e44a from that repository, last modified on the date shown The VCF specificationVCF is a text file Format (most likely stored in a compressed manner). It contains meta-information lines, a headerline, and then data lines each containing information about a position in the genome. The Format also has the abilityto contain genotype information on samples for each An example##fileformat= ##fileDate=20090805##source= ##reference=file:///seq/ ##contig=<ID=20,length=62435964,assembly=B36,md5=f126cdf8a6e0c7f379d618ff66beb2da,species="Homo sapiens",taxonomy=x>##phasing=partial##INFO=<ID=NS,Number=1,Type=Integer,Description="Number of Samples With Data">##INFO=<ID=DP,Number=1,Type=Integer,Description="Total Depth">##INFO=<ID=AF,Number=A,Type=Float,Description="Allele Frequency">##INFO=<ID=AA,Number=1,Type=String,Description="Ancestral Allele">##INFO=<ID=DB,Number=0,Type=Flag,Descrip tion="dbSNP membership, build 129"
1.2.3 Filter field format FILTERs that have been applied to the data should be described as follows: ##FILTER=<ID=ID,Description="description"> 1.2.4 Individual format field format Likewise, Genotype fields specified in the FORMAT field should be described as follows: ##FORMAT=<ID=ID,Number=number,Type=type,Description="description">
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