Crate vcf_batcher

VCF Batcher

A library for converting large VCF files into batches of smaller VCF files containing a fixed number of samples. Can also be used as a command line tool.

Enums

ReaderLines

Wrapper for the lines of a file. If the file is bgzipped, the lines are read with a BGZFReader.

Functions

extract_variants_to_batches

Converts a large VCF file into batches of smaller VCF files containing a fixed number of samples

is_header_line

In VCF-Files header lines containing metadata start with a #. This function therefore simply checks if a line starts with a #.

parse_compression_level

Parses the user input for the compression level and returns the corresponding compression level from the bgzip crate.

read_lines

The output is wrapped in a Result to allow matching on errors Returns an Iterator to the Reader of the lines of the file.

save_batch

Saves a batch of variants to a file.