A spectrum of free software tools for processing the VCF variant call format: vcflib, bio-vcf, cyvcf2, hts-nim and slivar

• Erik Garrison,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Zev N. Kronenberg,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pacific Biosciences, San Diego, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7627-9808

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• Eric T. Dawson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5448-1653

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• Brent S. Pedersen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Pjotr Prins

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jprins@uthsc.edu

  Affiliation Department Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8021-9162

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