jvarkit

VcfConcat

Concatenate VCFs with same samples. See also bcftools concat

Usage

This program is now part of the main jvarkit tool. See jvarkit for compiling.

Usage: java -jar dist/jvarkit.jar vcfconcat  [options] Files

Usage: vcfconcat [options] Files
  Options:
    --bcf-output
      If this program writes a VCF to a file, The format is first guessed from 
      the file suffix. Otherwise, force BCF output. The current supported BCF 
      version is : 2.1 which is not compatible with bcftools/htslib (last 
      checked 2019-11-15)
      Default: false
    --chrom, --contig
      limit to that chromosome
    -G, --drop-genotypes
      Drop genotypes
      Default: false
    --generate-vcf-md5
      Generate MD5 checksum for VCF output.
      Default: false
    -h, --help
      print help and exit
    --helpFormat
      What kind of help. One of [usage,markdown,xml].
    --merge
      merge all samples. First Scan all files to get all distinct samples
      Default: false
    -o, --out
      Output file. Optional . Default: stdout
    -S, --samples
      Print Samples in INFO columns. implies --drop-genotypes
      Default: none
      Possible Values: [none, all, with_alt]
    -T, --tag
      if not empty, add INFO/tag containing the source/path of the variant
      Default: <empty string>
    --version
      print version and exit

Keywords

• vcf

Creation Date

20131230

Source code

https://github.com/lindenb/jvarkit/tree/master/src/main/java/com/github/lindenb/jvarkit/tools/vcfconcat/VcfConcat.java

Contribute

• Issue Tracker: http://github.com/lindenb/jvarkit/issues
• Source Code: http://github.com/lindenb/jvarkit

License

The project is licensed under the MIT license.

Citing

Should you cite vcfconcat ? https://github.com/mr-c/shouldacite/blob/master/should-I-cite-this-software.md

The current reference is:

http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1425030

Lindenbaum, Pierre (2015): JVarkit: java-based utilities for Bioinformatics. figshare. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1425030

Motivation

 wget -O - "https://www.genenames.org/cgi-bin/download/custom?col=gd_hgnc_id&col=gd_app_sym&status=Approved&hgnc_dbtag=on&order_by=gd_app_sym_sort&format=text&submit=submit" |\
 	tail -n +2 |\
 	awk -F '\t' '{printf("type : gene\nsymbol : %s\nuri : %s\n\n",$2,$1);}' |\
 	sed 's%HGNC:%http://identifiers.org/hgnc/%' > genes.recfile

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