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author Rob van Nues2020-01-03 02:49:50 +0100
committer Robby Workman2020-01-03 06:33:50 +0100
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academic/bcftools: Updated for version 1.10.2.
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-Prior to the introduction of HTSlib, SAMtools and BCFtools were distributed in
-a single samtools-0.1.x package.
-This old version remains available from SBo as samtools-legacy
+bcftools (BCF calling tools) contains all the "vcf..." commands which
+previously lived in the htslib repository (such as vcfcheck, vcfmerge,
+vcfisec, etc.) and the samtools BCF calling from bcftools subdirectory
+of the previous samtools. BCFtools are meant as a faster replacement
+for most of the perl VCFtools commands.
-The BCFtools is now distributed as an individual package.
+Prior to the introduction of HTSlib, SAMtools and BCFtools were distributed
+in a single samtools-0.1.x package. This old version remains available from
+SBo as samtools-legacy.