{"id":11787,"date":"2026-02-04T15:06:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/?page_id=11787"},"modified":"2026-02-04T15:23:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:23:41","slug":"bcftools","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/software\/applications\/bcftools\/","title":{"rendered":"bcftools"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Overview<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/samtools.github.io\/bcftools\/howtos\/index.html\">BCFtools<\/a>  is a set of utilities that manipulate variant calls in the Variant Call Format (VCF) and its binary counterpart BCF.<\/p>\n<p>Versions 1.21 and 1.11 are installed on the CSF3<\/p>\n<h2>Restrictions on use<\/h2>\n<p>This software is open source and may be used by all CSF users.<\/p>\n<h2>Set up procedure<\/h2>\n<p>To access the software you must first load ONE of the modulefiles:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nmodule load apps\/gcc\/bcftools\/1.21     # compiled with GCC 14.2\r\nmodule load apps\/gcc\/bcftools\/1.11     # compiled with GCC 14.2\r\n<\/pre>\n<h2>Further info<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/samtools.github.io\/bcftools\/howtos\/index.html\">BCFtools website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Updates<\/h2>\n<p>None.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview BCFtools is a set of utilities that manipulate variant calls in the Variant Call Format (VCF) and its binary counterpart BCF. Versions 1.21 and 1.11 are installed on the CSF3 Restrictions on use This software is open source and may be used by all CSF users. Set up procedure To access the software you must first load ONE of the modulefiles: module load apps\/gcc\/bcftools\/1.21 # compiled with GCC 14.2 module load apps\/gcc\/bcftools\/1.11 # compiled.. <a href=\"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/software\/applications\/bcftools\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"parent":86,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11787","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11789,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11787\/revisions\/11789"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}