Bcftools

Overview

• BCFtools: is part of the Samtools which is a suite of programs for interacting with high-throughput sequencing data. It consists of three separate repositories:

• BCFtools (as with Samtools) use HTSlib internally, but these source packages contain their own copies of htslib so they can be built independently.

Using

Use the module name bcftools to discover versions available and to load the application.

Multicore:

The bcftools application can run across multiple threads using the --threads option.

Please see the help for the specific tool’s command for further details e.g. bcftools mpileup.