What is a .BCF file?
BCF is the compressed binary form of a genomic variant-call (VCF) file.
- Did you know
- BCF speeds up handling of the huge variant lists produced in genomics.
- BCF is the binary counterpart of VCF, the variant-call format created in 2010 for the 1000 Genomes Project.
- Tools such as bcftools read and write BCF and VCF interchangeably, with BCF using BGZF compression for efficient access.
- What Analyser reads
- Open scientific, medical and engineering files: DICOM scans, NIfTI brain volumes, Garmin FIT/TCX activities, FITS astronomy frames, FASTA/FASTQ sequences, chemistry structures (MOL/SDF/MOL2/CIF/XYZ), Gerber/Excellon PCB data, SPICE netlists, EDF/BDF biosignals, JCAMP-DX spectra, SPSS/Stata/SAS datasets and VTK/ParaView meshes - metadata extracted entirely in-browser.
- Depth of analysis
- .BCF is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .BCF file
- Drag a .BCF file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.