extracting one snp position from a vcd file

Question

[evelyn]

Hello,

Is there a way to extract one SNP by POS from a large vcf file.

Thank you!

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

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Answer 1

[ATpoint]

tabix, see the example in the manual: http://www.htslib.org/doc/tabix.html

Essentially you compress the file with bgzip, then index with tabix and then use tabix your.vcf.gz chr:start-end for retrieval.