samtools / hts-specs

Specifications of SAM/BAM and related high-throughput sequencing file formats
http://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/
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INFO CIPOS Number=2xA #783

Open rkimoakbioinformatics opened 1 month ago

rkimoakbioinformatics commented 1 month ago

In VCFv4.5, the number of CIPOS entries should be two times the number of ALT alleles. However, its Number is defined to be .. This makes it hard to figure out how to parse such meta-information lines automatically.

How about 2xA to indicate two times the number of ALT alleles?

In the same way, we can do

INFO=

INFO=

We can use numberxcharacter/number format to write the following as well.

INFO=

INFO=