VCFCOMBINE(1)

💖 vcfcombine 💖

ok so bestie, welcome to vcfcombine — it's a page from the vcflib manual, section 1, and it's giving "VCF transformation" energy. let's get into it 🧚

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✨ NAME ✨

vcfcombine — the girl whose whole job is smooshing VCF files together 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

vcfcombine [vcf file] [vcf file] ...

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

ok so here's the tea ☕ — vcfcombine combines VCF files positionally, and when the sites and the alleles line up identically, it combines the samples. no cap.

you can throw any number of VCF files at it. any. number. 🫶

when records in multiple files match, the INFO field and other columns are taken from one of the files which are combined — that's the rule, don't @ me.

⚠️ and this is the important bit: alleles must have identical ordering to be combined into one record. if they don't? multiple records will be emitted instead. so if your allele order is a mess, the vibe check fails and you get separate records. periodt.

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h, --help — prints this text. your girl is literally explaining herself 💁‍♀️
• -v, --version — print version. so you know exactly which queen you're running 👑
• -r, --region REGION — a region specifier of the form chrN:x-y to bound the merge. keep it contained bestie, set those boundaries 🚧

Type: transformation ✨

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💀 EXIT VALUES 💀

• 0 — Success! we ate 🍽️
• not 0 — Failure 😭 something went wrong fr fr

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• vcflib(1) — the whole fam, 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.

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Erik Garrison and vcflib contributors.

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so yeah, that's vcfcombine from vcflib, manual section 1, running under the vcfcombine (VCF transformation) title 🌸 go forth and merge responsibly, bestie — and remember, identical allele ordering or it's multiple records, iykyk 💖✨🎀