Format
Variant Call Format
Summary
- Name
- Variant Call Format
- Version
- 2.x
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/906
- Format type
- Dataset
- Description
- The Variant Call Format (VCF) specifies the format of a text file used in bioinformatics for storing gene sequence variations.
- File extensions
-
vcf - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Relationships
- Is previous version of
- Is subsequent version of
Internal signatures
Variant Call Format v2
- Description
- BOF: ##fileformat=VCFv2 We currently only distinguish by major version number, but it may be desireable to distinguish between minor version too. Specifications: https://github.com/samtools/hts-specs
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
232366696C65666F726D61743D5643467632- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V86
- Release date
- 27 July 2016
-
Added format
Variant Call Format 2.x: Full entry added.
-
Added signature
Variant Call Format 2.x: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.