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      <h2>VCF (Variant Call Format) specifications</h2>
		<p>The <b>newer</b> versions of the VCF v4.1, VCF v4.2, and BCF v2.1 specification documents can be found on <a href="https://github.com/samtools/hts-specs">github</a>. The <b>older</b> versions of the documents are hosted on the 1000 genomes wiki page.
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	    	<li>VCF format v4.0: <a href="http://www.1000genomes.org/wiki/Analysis/Variant%20Call%20Format/vcf-variant-call-format-version-40">1000 genomes wiki</a></li>
   	 	<li>VCF format v4.1: <a href="http://www.1000genomes.org/wiki/Analysis/Variant%20Call%20Format/vcf-variant-call-format-version-41">1000 genomes wiki</a> | <a href="http://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/VCFv4.1.pdf">github</a> </li>
			<li>VCF format v4.2: <a href="http://www.1000genomes.org/wiki/analysis/variant-call-format/vcf-variant-call-format-version-42">1000 genomes wiki</a> | <a href="http://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/VCFv4.2.pdf">github</a> </li>
    		<li>BCF format v2.1: <a href="http://www.1000genomes.org/wiki/analysis/variant-call-format/bcf-binary-vcf-version-2">1000 genomes wiki</a> | <a href="http://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/BCFv2_qref.pdf">github</a></li>
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