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I'm having a hard time opening a VCF file [Kaviar-160204-Public-hg38-trim.vcf]. Should I be using something other than a text-editor? Any advice?
Files in the bioinformatic field are almost never to be opened by text editors, because the size often overloads their capacity plus any (unintended) manipulation might somewhat corrupt the standardized format (like adding a tab somewhere by accident). Use standard Linux tools like
less
. More info can be found on google on that matter. Spend some quality time learning the Unix basics.Understood and appreciated.