❓ How to understand and analyze a VCF (Variant Call Format) file from WGS/WES data? Tutorial to explore and visualize it interactively without coding!

💡 VCF files store DNA polymorphism data including SNPs, insertions, deletions and structural variants.

1. 📚 Reading resources:

   1. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3137218/
   2. https://gatk.broadinstitute.org/hc/en-us/articles/360035531692-VCF-Variant-Call-Format
   3. https://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/

2. 🧬 Genomic Variant nomenclature:

   1. https://hgvs-nomenclature.org/stable/recommendations/general/
   2. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26931183/

3. 📌Tutorial slides to explore and interactively visualize a VCF file using free web-based tools 🛠️: Tutorial_VCF_Analysis_Visualization_FreeWeb-basedTools.pdf

   1. OpenCRAVAT: https://www.opencravat.org/
   2. Gene.iobio: https://gene.iobio.io/