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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 17.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Protoc Bioinformatics. 2016 Dec 8;56:15.10.1–15.10.18. doi: 10.1002/cpbi.20

Table 15.10.1. Description of Standard VCF Output Fields.

VCF field Description Example data
CHROM Chromosome/contig name 1
POS Position 10010
ID ID assigned to this variant (UUID for CaVEMan data) 81b61f98-f614-11e5-8014-d8d2535b31b0
REF Reference allele at this position A
ALT Mutant allele at this position T
QUAL Quality score associated with this variant (“.” if blank) .
FILTER List of filter flags this variant fails (“PASS” if none fail) PASS
INFO List of key value pairs separated by a semicolon describing the variation. Keys and associated values described in the VCF header. See Table 15.10.2. for CaVEMan INFO field entries. DP = 90;MP = 1.0e + 00;GP = 5.8e-08;TG = TT/CT;TP = 9.9e-01; SG = TT/CC;SP = 7.1e-03
FORMAT Colon-separated list of fields that constitute the entries under the NORMAL and TUMOUR headings. Keys and associated values are described in the VCF header. See Table 15.10.3. for CaVEMan FORMAT field entries. GT:FAZ:FCZ:FGZ:FTZ:RAZ:RCZ:RGZ:RTZ:PM
NORMAL Values described in the FORMAT field for the normal sample. 0|0:0:0:1:20:0:1:0:10:3.1e-02
TUMOUR Values described in the FORMAT field for the tumor sample. 0|1:0:7:1:32:0:1:0:17:1.4e-01