Variants in excel

Question

[eleni.stylianou]

I have inherited from a previous study a list of variants in excel. I do no have the original vcf files. What is the best way to analyze the variants in the excel file? I would like to use Varsifter or something similar but most packages seem to require vcf or vs formats. Thank you.

[GenoMax]

Start with moving those out of excel into a standard delimited format file (perhaps they already are). Paste a sample of what you actually have so you can get useful answers.

Answer 1

[colindaven]

Based on what I've seen, VCF files tend to be edited majorly by biologists so it might be you can't get them into VCF format again. As genomax says, even a limited VCF file format (i.e. with few INFO and or Genotype fields) might be highly beneficial.

Generally though, Excel is a data grave for all standard text formats.