You can use the TileDB-VCF CLI to export the TileDB-VCF ingested dataset back into VCF formats for downstream analyses, in a lossless way.
While these exports are lossless in terms of the actual data stored, they may not be identical to the original files. For example, fields within the INFO
and FORMAT
columns may appear in a slightly different order in the exported files.
To recreate all of original (single-sample) VCF files simply run the export
command and set the --output-format
to v
, for VCF.
If bcftools
is available on your system you can use it to easily examine any of the exported files:
The same mechanics covered in the reading for filtering records by sample and genomic region also apply to exporting VCF files.