@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Most commands accept VCF, bgzipped VCF and BCF with filetype detected automatica
BCFtools is designed to work on a stream\&. It regards an input file "\-" as the standard input (stdin) and outputs to the standard output (stdout)\&. Several commands can thus be combined with Unix pipes\&.
.SS "VERSION"
.sp
This manual page was last updated \fB2019\-12\-06\fR and refers to bcftools git version \fB1\&.10\fR\&.
This manual page was last updated \fB2019\-12\-19\fR and refers to bcftools git version \fB1\&.10\&.2\fR\&.
.SS "BCF1"
.sp
The BCF1 format output by versions of samtools <= 0\&.1\&.19 is \fBnot\fR compatible with this version of bcftools\&. To read BCF1 files one can use the view command from old versions of bcftools packaged with samtools versions <= 0\&.1\&.19 to convert to VCF, which can then be read by this version of bcftools\&.
@@ -3130,6 +3130,13 @@ reference sequence\&. Supplying this option will turn on left\-alignment and nor
option below\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-force\fR
.RS 4
try to proceed with
\fB\-m\-\fR
even if malformed tags with incorrect number of fields are encountered, discarding such tags\&. (Experimental, use at your own risk\&.)
split multiallelic sites into biallelic records (\fB\-\fR) or join biallelic sites into multiallelic records (\fB+\fR)\&. An optional type string can follow which controls variant types which should be split or merged together: If only SNP records should be split or merged, specify
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<htmlxmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/><title>bcftools</title><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="docbook-xsl.css"/><metaname="generator"content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1"/></head><body><divxml:lang="en"class="refentry"title="bcftools"lang="en"><aid="idp212896"></a><divclass="titlepage"></div><divclass="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>bcftools — utilities for variant calling and manipulating VCFs and BCFs.</p></div><divclass="refsynopsisdiv"title="Synopsis"><aid="_synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><p><spanclass="strong"><strong>bcftools</strong></span> [--version|--version-only] [--help] [<spanclass="emphasis"><em>COMMAND</em></span>] [<spanclass="emphasis"><em>OPTIONS</em></span>]</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="DESCRIPTION"><aid="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>BCFtools is a set of utilities that manipulate variant calls in the Variant
<htmlxmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/><title>bcftools</title><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="docbook-xsl.css"/><metaname="generator"content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1"/></head><body><divxml:lang="en"class="refentry"title="bcftools"lang="en"><aid="idp25229120"></a><divclass="titlepage"></div><divclass="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>bcftools — utilities for variant calling and manipulating VCFs and BCFs.</p></div><divclass="refsynopsisdiv"title="Synopsis"><aid="_synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><p><spanclass="strong"><strong>bcftools</strong></span> [--version|--version-only] [--help] [<spanclass="emphasis"><em>COMMAND</em></span>] [<spanclass="emphasis"><em>OPTIONS</em></span>]</p></div><divclass="refsect1"title="DESCRIPTION"><aid="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>BCFtools is a set of utilities that manipulate variant calls in the Variant
Call Format (VCF) and its binary counterpart BCF. All commands work
transparently with both VCFs and BCFs, both uncompressed and BGZF-compressed.</p><p>Most commands accept VCF, bgzipped VCF and BCF with filetype detected
automatically even when streaming from a pipe. Indexed VCF and BCF
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ read simultaneously, they must be indexed and therefore also compressed.
(Note that files with non-standard index names can be accessed as e.g.
"<codeclass="literal">bcftools view -r X:2928329 file.vcf.gz##idx##non-standard-index-name</code>".)</p><p>BCFtools is designed to work on a stream. It regards an input file "-" as the
standard input (stdin) and outputs to the standard output (stdout). Several
commands can thus be combined with Unix pipes.</p><divclass="refsect2"title="VERSION"><aid="_version"></a><h3>VERSION</h3><p>This manual page was last updated <spanclass="strong"><strong>2019-12-06</strong></span> and refers to bcftools git version <spanclass="strong"><strong>1.10</strong></span>.</p></div><divclass="refsect2"title="BCF1"><aid="_bcf1"></a><h3>BCF1</h3><p>The BCF1 format output by versions of samtools <= 0.1.19 is <spanclass="strong"><strong>not</strong></span>
commands can thus be combined with Unix pipes.</p><divclass="refsect2"title="VERSION"><aid="_version"></a><h3>VERSION</h3><p>This manual page was last updated <spanclass="strong"><strong>2019-12-19</strong></span> and refers to bcftools git version <spanclass="strong"><strong>1.10.2</strong></span>.</p></div><divclass="refsect2"title="BCF1"><aid="_bcf1"></a><h3>BCF1</h3><p>The BCF1 format output by versions of samtools <= 0.1.19 is <spanclass="strong"><strong>not</strong></span>
compatible with this version of bcftools. To read BCF1 files one can use
the view command from old versions of bcftools packaged with samtools
versions <= 0.1.19 to convert to VCF, which can then be read by
@@ -1895,6 +1895,11 @@ the <span class="strong"><strong><a class="link" href="#fasta_ref">--fasta-ref</
and normalization, however, see also the <spanclass="strong"><strong><aclass="link"href="#do_not_normalize">--do-not-normalize</a></strong></span>