https://divingintogeneticsandgenomics.com/tags/sam/ Recent content in Sam on Chatomics Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us © 2018 Ming 'Tommy' Tang Fri, 17 May 2013 11:14:00 -0700 https://divingintogeneticsandgenomics.com/archive/use-tabix-to-extract-subset-of-sam-bed-and-vcf-files/ Fri, 17 May 2013 11:14:00 -0700 https://divingintogeneticsandgenomics.com/archive/use-tabix-to-extract-subset-of-sam-bed-and-vcf-files/ see here: http://davetang.org/muse/2013/02/22/using-tabix/ and here : http://www.biostars.org/p/43609/ and here: http://www.1000genomes.org/category/tabix disclaimer: credits go to the original authors, refer to the links above for detailed information. You can use tabix to extract subsets of the vcf files from the 1000genomes websites. Thanks to the fact that tabix uses a index file, you will be able to download only portions of the files, without having to download everything in local. Example: