wtsi-hgi/vcftools

Name: vcftools

Owner: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute - Human Genetics Informatics

Description: A set of tools written in Perl and C++ for working with VCF files, such as those generated by the 1000 Genomes Project.

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Created: 2016-01-05 15:47:18.0

Updated: 2016-01-05 15:47:19.0

Pushed: 2016-01-02 20:12:46.0

Homepage: https://vcftools.github.io/

Size: 841

Language: C++

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README

VCFtools

A set of tools written in Perl and C++ for working with VCF files, such as those generated by the 1000 Genomes Project.

Project website: https://vcftools.github.io/

License

The program package is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3.0 (LGPLv3). See the LICENSE file for the complete LGPL license text.

Credits
Building VCFtools

General help about the building process's configuration step can be acquired via:

nfigure --help
Build from Release Tarball
nfigure

 install

You many need sudo permissions to run make install.

Build from GitHub
clone https://github.com/vcftools/vcftools.git
cftools
togen.sh
nfigure

 install

You many need sudo permissions to run make install.

Documentation

Documentation and usage examples can be found here:

https://vcftools.github.io/examples.html

A manual page is also available. If prefix is set to /usr or if MANPATH points to $prefix/share/man, you can access the manual page via:

vcftools
Getting Help

The best way to get help regarding VCFtools is to email the mailing list:

vcftools-help@lists.sourceforge.net

Citation

If you make use of VCFtools in your research, we would appreciate a citation of the following paper:

The Variant Call Format and VCFtools, Petr Danecek, Adam Auton, Goncalo Abecasis, Cornelis A. Albers, Eric Banks, Mark A. DePristo, Robert Handsaker, Gerton Lunter, Gabor Marth, Stephen T. Sherry, Gilean McVean, Richard Durbin and 1000 Genomes Project Analysis Group, Bioinformatics, 2011 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btr330


This work is supported by the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Grant Number U24TR002306. This work is solely the responsibility of the creators and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.