VCF_MELT(1)

💖 NAME 💖

vcf_melt — melt a VCF file into a tab delimited set of calls, one per line 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

vcf_melt <vcf-file>

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay bestie, so first things first: this script is part of PyVCF. iconic lineage, we love that for it 💅

here's the tea. VCF files put all the calls from every different sample on one single line. like, everybody's squished together on one row. it's giving crowded elevator 😭

so what this script does is read vcf on stdin and then write all the calls to stdout in tab delimited format, with one call in one sample per line. so instead of one chaotic line holding everyone, you get a nice little lineup, one call per line. much more demure, much more mindful 🌸

and the whole point, the reason we do all this? it makes it easy to find a given sample's genotype with, say, grep. literally just grep for your girl and she appears. no cap, it's that simple 🔥

sooo this is version 0.6.7, dated October 2015, and it lives in the VCF_MELT(1) section of the manual (User Commands energy) 🎀

that's the whole page bestie, go melt some VCFs, mwah 💖✨