VCF file extension. How to open and convert files with VCF file suffix

Files with vcf extension may also be found as special DNA sequence data files saved in the Variant Call Format.

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VCF file extension - Variant Call Format

What is vcf file? How to open vcf files?

File type specification:

Text file type

File extension vcf is also used for the Variant Call Format, a text file used in bioinformatics for storing gene sequence variations. The format has been developed with the advent of large-scale genotyping and DNA sequencing projects, such as the 1000 Genomes Project.

Help how to open:

You can view the data using any text editor, but to use them you need to import these to some DNA sequencer.

How to convert:

Perhaps some sort of conversion to similar formats is possible.

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