bcftools

Tools for processing BCF/VCF variant call files and variant calling

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Tools for BCF/VCF files and variant calling from samtools

bcftools

View the header and first few variants of a VCF file$ bcftools view variants.vcf.gz | head -20

Filter VCF file to keep only variants with PASS quality$ bcftools view -f PASS variants.vcf.gz -o filtered.vcf.gz

Merge multiple VCF files from different samples$ bcftools merge sample1.vcf.gz sample2.vcf.gz -o merged.vcf.gz