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. 2017 Jul 26;10(Suppl 2):46. doi: 10.1186/s12920-017-0275-0

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Variant Call Format (VCF) file. This is a text file that stores genomic information, in particular, genetic variations, for example, single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Each VCF file is divided into a header section, which provides some meta-data describing the remaining content of the file, and the body, which contains all the different variants