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    <h1>VCF (Variant Call Format) specification</h1>
    <ul>
    <li><a href="http://www.1000genomes.org/wiki/Analysis/Variant%20Call%20Format/vcf-variant-call-format-version-40">VCF format v4.0</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://www.1000genomes.org/wiki/Analysis/Variant%20Call%20Format/VCF%20%28Variant%20Call%20Format%29%20version%204.0/encoding-structural-variants">VCF and structural variants</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://www.1000genomes.org/wiki/Analysis/Variant%20Call%20Format/vcf-variant-call-format-version-41">VCF format v4.1</a></li>
    </ul>
    <br>
    <ul>
    <li><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3137218/">VCF paper</a></li>
    <li><a href="VCF-poster.pdf">VCF poster</a></li>
    <li><A href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vcftools-spec">VCFtools-spec</a> - Low traffic mailing list intended for VCF format related
        discussions, such as clarifications of the current format version or
        proposals of changes to the specification. 
        </li>
    </ul>
    <br>
    <ul>
    <li><a href="http://www.1000genomes.org/wiki/analysis/variant-call-format/bcf-binary-vcf-version-2">Binary Call Format (BCF)</a> - 
        Binary format designed for efficient storing and parsing of VCF records. BCF has been recently standardized 
        and implemented in tools such as <a href="https://github.com/samtools/htslib">htslib</A> (C library for high-throughput sequencing data formats)
        and GATK.
        </li>
    </ul>
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