VCFShark: how to squeeze a VCF file

Sebastian Deorowicz; Agnieszka Danek; Marek Kokot

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btab211

BioinformaticsBioinformaticsMar 30, 2021

Peer-reviewed journal article

VCFShark: how to squeeze a VCF file

Sebastian Deorowicz iD, Agnieszka Danek iD, Marek Kokot iD

Abstract

SummaryThe VCF files with results of sequencing projects take a lot of space. We propose VCFShark squeezing them up to an order of magnitude better than the de facto standards (gzipped VCF and BCF). Availability and Implementationhttps://github.com/refresh-bio/vcfshark Contactsebastian.deorowicz@polsl.pl Supplementary informationSupplementary data are available at publishers Web site.

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