Introduction

BCFtools is a tool provided by Samtools developers to manipulate files in the variant call format (VCF). It can process VCF files as well as their binary counterparts BCF files. BCFtools consists of many commands for analyzing genotypic variants, manipulating VCF files, and creating indexes for VCF/BCF files.

Programming language: C

Brief description: a tool for manipulating VCF files

Open source license: MIT/Expat