Example MAF Files

Question

[anasjamshed]

I need some example MAF files. From where can I download?

[Ram]

Anas, you NEED to start investing more effort. You've been on the forum long enough to know that you need to search around and put in some work before asking for help here.

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

https://github.com/search?q=+path%3A*.maf+chr22&type=code (beware, not all files are true MAF files here...)

[anasjamshed]

What is the difference between maf and vcf files?

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

https://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQformat.html#format5 vs https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/vcf.html

[Joe]

This might sound sarcastic, but its not: one contains alignments, the other is variant calls - the latter doesn't necessarily require that it gives you the alignments to be able to give you the variant information.