vcfrandomsample(1)

vcfrandomsample1

Usage

vcfrandomsample options []

Overview

Randomly sample sites from an input VCF file, which may be provided as stdin. Scale the sampling probability by the field specified in KEY. This may be used to provide uniform sampling across allele frequencies, for instance.

Options

options:
    -r, --rate RATE          base sampling probability per locus
    -s, --scale-by KEY       scale sampling likelihood by this Float info field
    -p, --random-seed N      use this random seed (by default read from /dev/random)
    -q, --pseudorandom-seed  use a pseudorandom seed (by default read from /dev/random)

Exit status

0

Success

not 0

Failure

Other

Releases

3 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 11
  2. 12
  3. 13

License

Copyright 2011-2024 (C) Erik Garrison and vcflib contributors. MIT licensed. Copyright 2020-2024 (C) Pjotr Prins.

Authors

Erik Garrison and vcflib contributors.

From libvcflib-tools 1.0.12+dfsg-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.