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bcftools: BCFtools is a set of utilities that manipulate variant calls

Overview of package

Package: bcftools
Description: BCFtools is a set of utilities that manipulate variant calls
For more information: http://samtools.github.io/bcftools/
Categories: Genomics
License: OpenSource (GPL v.2, MIT)

General Usage

BCFtools is a program for variant calling and manipulating files in the Variant Call Format (VCF) and its binary counterpart BCF. All commands work transparently with both VCFs and BCFs, both uncompressed and BGZF-compressed.

This module will add bcftools and related commands to your PATH.

Available versions by cluster

This section lists the available versions of the package bcftoolson the UMD HPC clusters.

Versions available on the Zaratan cluster

Version Module tags CPU(s) optimized for GPU ready?
1.14 1.14 zen2 Yes