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Bcftools is a special tool for manipulating VCF files provided by samtools developers. It can handle both VCF format and binary files corresponding to VCF.

The address of github is as follows

Https://github.com/samtools/bcftools

The installation process is as follows

Wget https://github.com/samtools/bcftools/releases/download/1.8/bcftools-1.8.tar.bz2tar xjvf bcftools-1.8.tar.bz2cd bcftools-1.8/./configuremake

After unzipping, you can compile.

And samtools, bcftools consists of many subcommands, all of which can be divided into the following three categories

1. Analysis of genomic variation

Bcftools can also analyze genomic variations such as SNP,CNV, and the subcommands involved are as follows

Call

Consensus

Cnv

Csq

Filter

Gtcheck

Mpileup

Roh

Stats

two。 Manipulate VCF files

It includes the functions of format conversion, filtering, sorting, intersection and other functions for VCF files. The subcommands involved are as follows

Annotate

Concat

Convert

Isec

Merge

Norm

Plugin

Query

Reheader

Sort

View

3. Index VCF/BCF

The corresponding subcommand is index

Bcftools is developed in C, so the processing speed is very fast and can be seen as an upgraded version of VCFtools.

When bcftools processes files, it can also recognize bgzip compressed VCF files. In subsequent articles, the use of bcftools will be described in detail.

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