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Published in final edited form as: Nat Methods. 2012 Apr 27;9(5):459–462. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.1974

Table 1.

File Formats Used in the 1000 Genomes Project

File Format	Description	Further information/Citation
SRF	Container format for data from sequencing machines based on ZTR	http://srf.sourceforge.net/
FASTQ	Text based format for sequence and quality values	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASTQ_format
SAM/BAM	Sequence Alignment and Map format. A compact Alignment format for placement of short read data with respect to a reference genome. The consortium designed this file format.	http://samtools.sourceforge.net/Reference⁷
VCF	Variant Call Format a column based text format for storing variant calls and individual genotypes for those calls. This file format was designed by the consortium.	http://vcftools.sourceforge.net/Reference⁹