VCF2TSV(1)

✨ VCF2TSV — the vcflib glow-up ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because vcf2tsv is one of those little vcflib icons that just does the thing and we're gonna talk about it 💅

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💖 NAME 💖

vcf2tsv — it takes your VCF and turns it into a tab-delimited table. that's it. that's the vibe. 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

vcf2tsv [-n null_string] [-g] [vcf file]

literally just that. so clean, so demure 🎀

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea ☕ — vcf2tsv converts a VCF into a per-allele or per-genotype tab-delimited format, and it uses a null string to fill in the empty values in the table so nothing looks all sad and blank 🫶

and if you pass -g? that's when it gets per-genotype, meaning you get one line per sample with its genotype info. main character energy for every single sample, no cap 👑

now, the part you need to internalize: when there's more than one alt allele, you're gonna get multiple rows — one for each allele — and the info will match the A index. fr fr, that's just how it works 💯

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -n null_string — the string that stands in for empty values in your table, so your table never has awkward gaps 💖
• -g — output one line per sample, with genotype information. the per-genotype serve 🌈
• [vcf file] — the VCF you're feeding in. yes it's optional in the synopsis, don't come for me 🙈

Type: transformation — that's what it is, that's its whole job ✨

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💀 EXIT VALUES 💀

• 0 — success!! we ate, we left no crumbs 🍓
• not 0 — failure 😭 something went wrong bestie, go check your input

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• vcflib(1) — the whole family, go say hi 🫶

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🌟 OTHER 🌟

📜 LICENSE 📜

Copyright 2011-2024 (C) Erik Garrison and vcflib contributors. MIT licensed. Copyright 2020-2024 (C) Pjotr Prins.

(yes, MIT licensed — open source royalty, we love to see it 👑)

🎀 AUTHORS 🎀

Erik Garrison and vcflib contributors.

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 this one's from vcflib (the vcf2tsv (vcflib) situation), so go forth, transform those VCFs, and be the tab-delimited icon you were always meant to be 🌈✨💅