
<div class="item">
    <h1>Welcome to VCFtools</h1>
    <p>Welcome to VCFtools - a program package designed for working with VCF
    files, such as those generated by the 1000 Genomes Project. The aim of
    VCFtools is to provide methods for working with VCF files: validating, 
    merging, comparing and calculate some basic population genetic statistics.
    </p>
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    <h3>Supported VCF versions</h3>
    <p>VCFtools supports the <a href="specs.html">VCF format v4.0</a>. The 
    vcf-validator, Perl API and scripts now support also <a href="specs.html">VCF format v4.1</a> and 
    maintain backward compatibility with older versions.
    <br>
    For details, please go to the <a href="docs.html">Documentation</a> page.</p>
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    <h3>Mailing List</h3>
    <p>Anything VCF or VCFtools related may be discussed on the project's <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=279407">mailing list</a>.</p>
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    <h3>Download</h3>
    <p>
    The <b>latest stable release</b> can be downloaded from here:</p>
    <p class="codebox" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcftools/files/">https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcftools/files/</a></p>
    <p>
    The <b>latest development version</b> can be retrieved by running the following command:
    </p>
    <!--<p class="codebox" style="text-align: center;"> svn checkout https://vcftools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vcftools vcftools </p>-->
    <p class="codebox" style="text-align: center;"> svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/vcftools/code vcftools </p>
    <p>
    The above command is required to be run only once, for any subsequent updates run this command from the vcftools directory: 
    </p>
    <p class="codebox" style="text-align: center;"> svn update </p>
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    <h3>How to use</h3>
    The VCFtools package includes a set of tools for
    <ul>
    <li> validating
    <li> comparing
    <li> merging 
    <li> annotating
    <li> creating intersections and subsets
    <li> ...
    </ul>
    For details, please go to the <a href="docs.html">Documentation</a> page.
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