VCFheader browser

The fastest way to understand a VCF before reading a single variant.

Drop a VCF, gVCF, VCF.gz, or gVCF.gz file. We don't read your data. Only the header section is detected to build a structured report in your browser.

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Compressed files are read in chunks with fflate. The page deliberately stops after the header and does not finalise gzip validation, which avoids errors from trailing bytes after the compressed member.

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Generated with VCFheader, a free and open-source tool created by Switzerland Omics. Use of the software and generated reports is permitted, including in commercial settings. Attribution identifying Switzerland Omics as the creator should be retained where reasonably practicable, but does not imply endorsement. Switzerland Omics® is a registered trade mark. Further information: https://switzerlandomics.ch. VCF specification references in this report relate to samtools and the broader HTS specifications ecosystem and are distributed under the MIT/Expat Licence by Genome Research Ltd. Source: https://github.com/samtools/samtools. Further reading on HTS and file format specifications: https://www.htslib.org/doc/#file-formats.