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 "id": "variant-call-format-1-x",
 "name": "Variant Call Format",
 "category": "dataset",
 "identifiers": {
  "extensions": [
   "vcf"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "fmt/905"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q7915770"
  ],
  "magic": [
   {
    "offset": 0,
    "hex": "232366696c65666f726d61743d5643467631",
    "notes": "Variant Call Format v1"
   }
  ],
  "signatures": [
   {
    "name": "Variant Call Format v1",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 0,
      "pattern": "232366696c65666f726d61743d5643467631"
     }
    ]
   }
  ]
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 "status": "writable",
 "summary": "The Variant Call Format (VCF) specifies the format of a text file used in bioinformatics for storing gene sequence variations.",
 "tools": [
  {
   "name": "bioSyntax",
   "url": "http://bioSyntax.org",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License, version 3.0",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Mega2, the Manipulation Environment for Genetic Analysis",
   "url": "https://watson.hgen.pitt.edu/docs/mega2_html/mega2.html",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "GNU General Public License, version 3.0",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "SAMtools",
   "url": "http://htslib.org/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "Expat license",
   "open_source": true
  }
 ],
 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "PRONOM fmt/905",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/905",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q7915770",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7915770",
   "kind": "wiki"
  },
  {
   "name": "File Formats Wiki",
   "url": "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/VCF",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-20",
 "version": "1.x",
 "aliases": [],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "conversions": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": []
}