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Specifications of SAM/BAM and related high-throughput sequencing file formats
http://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/
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Add ID subfield to VCF v4.3 test file's structured header #773

Open jmarshall opened 2 weeks ago

jmarshall commented 2 weeks ago

In VCF v4.3 structured meta-information lines must have an ID subfield. Split the value into identifier-like ID and text Description subfields to demonstrate the structured benefit, though for a non-INFO/FORMAT/etc line there's probably nothing requiring ID's value to be identifier-like. Fixes #772.

This leaves the similar 4.1 and 4.2 files as is, as it is less clear whether ID-less structured headers are merely discouraged there and/or is unspecified and largely left up to implementations — cf #760.