# Installer vcflib avec Homebrew

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de vcflib pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:vcflib
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install vcflib
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:vcflib
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Page du gestionnaire de paquets:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/vcflib>
- **Version:** 1.0.15
- **Résumé source:** C++ library and cmdline tools for parsing and manipulating VCF files
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/vcflib/vcflib>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/vcflib/vcflib>
- **Docs amont:** <https://github.com/vcflib/vcflib#readme>
- **Licence:** MIT
- **Archive source:** <https://github.com/vcflib/vcflib/releases/download/v1.0.15/vcflib-1.0.15-src.tar.gz>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-06-21T00:20:16Z
- **Généré:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00

## exécutables

- abba-baba (cli)
- bFst (cli)
- bed2region (cli)
- bgziptabix (cli)
- dumpContigsFromHeader (cli)
- genotypeSummary (cli)
- hapLrt (cli)
- iHS (cli)
- meltEHH (cli)
- normalize-iHS (cli)
- pFst (cli)
- pVst (cli)
- permuteGPAT++ (cli)
- permuteSmooth (cli)
- plotHaps (cli)
- popStats (cli)
- segmentFst (cli)
- segmentIhs (cli)
- sequenceDiversity (cli)
- smoother (cli)
- vcf2bed.py (cli)
- vcf2dag (cli)
- vcf2fasta (cli)
- vcf2sqlite.py (cli)
- vcf2tsv (cli)
- vcf_strip_extra_headers (cli)
- vcfaddinfo (cli)
- vcfafpath (cli)
- vcfallelicprimitives (cli)
- vcfaltcount (cli)
- vcfannotate (cli)
- vcfannotategenotypes (cli)
- vcfbiallelic (cli)
- vcfbreakmulti (cli)
- vcfcat (cli)
- vcfcheck (cli)
- vcfclassify (cli)
- vcfcleancomplex (cli)
- vcfclearid (cli)
- vcfclearinfo (cli)
- vcfcombine (cli)
- vcfcommonsamples (cli)
- vcfcomplex (cli)
- vcfcountalleles (cli)
- vcfcreatemulti (cli)
- vcfdistance (cli)
- vcfecho (cli)
- vcfentropy (cli)
- vcfevenregions (cli)
- vcffilter (cli)
- vcffirstheader (cli)
- vcffixup (cli)
- vcfflatten (cli)
- vcfgeno2alleles (cli)
- vcfgeno2haplo (cli)
- vcfgenosamplenames (cli)
- vcfgenosummarize (cli)
- vcfgenotypecompare (cli)
- vcfgenotypes (cli)
- vcfglbound (cli)
- vcfglxgt (cli)
- vcfgtcompare.sh (cli)
- vcfhetcount (cli)
- vcfhethomratio (cli)
- vcfindelproximity (cli)
- vcfindels (cli)
- vcfindex (cli)
- vcfinfo2qual (cli)
- vcfinfosummarize (cli)
- vcfintersect (cli)
- vcfjoincalls (cli)
- vcfkeepgeno (cli)
- vcfkeepinfo (cli)
- vcfkeepsamples (cli)
- vcfld (cli)
- vcfleftalign (cli)
- vcflength (cli)
- vcfmultiallelic (cli)
- vcfmultiway (cli)
- vcfmultiwayscripts (cli)
- vcfnobiallelicsnps (cli)
- vcfnoindels (cli)
- vcfnosnps (cli)
- vcfnulldotslashdot (cli)
- vcfnullgenofields (cli)
- vcfnumalt (cli)
- vcfoverlay (cli)
- vcfparsealts (cli)
- vcfplotaltdiscrepancy.r (cli)
- vcfplotaltdiscrepancy.sh (cli)
- vcfplotsitediscrepancy.r (cli)
- vcfplottstv.sh (cli)
- vcfprimers (cli)
- vcfprintaltdiscrepancy.r (cli)
- vcfprintaltdiscrepancy.sh (cli)
- vcfqual2info (cli)
- vcfqualfilter (cli)
- vcfrandom (cli)
- vcfrandomsample (cli)
- vcfregionreduce (cli)
- vcfregionreduce_and_cut (cli)
- vcfregionreduce_pipe (cli)
- vcfregionreduce_uncompressed (cli)
- vcfremap (cli)
- vcfremoveaberrantgenotypes (cli)
- vcfremovenonATGC (cli)
- vcfremovesamples (cli)
- vcfroc (cli)
- vcfsample2info (cli)
- vcfsamplediff (cli)
- vcfsamplenames (cli)
- vcfsitesummarize (cli)
- vcfsnps (cli)
- vcfsort (cli)
- vcfstats (cli)
- vcfstreamsort (cli)
- vcfuniq (cli)
- vcfuniqalleles (cli)
- vcfvarstats (cli)
- vcfwave (cli)
- wcFst (cli)
- abba-baba (alias)
- bFst (alias)
- bed2region (alias)
- bgziptabix (alias)
- dumpContigsFromHeader (alias)
- genotypeSummary (alias)
- hapLrt (alias)
- iHS (alias)
- meltEHH (alias)
- normalize-iHS (alias)
- pFst (alias)
- pVst (alias)
- permuteGPAT++ (alias)
- permuteSmooth (alias)
- plotHaps (alias)
- popStats (alias)
- segmentFst (alias)
- segmentIhs (alias)
- sequenceDiversity (alias)
- smoother (alias)
- vcf2bed.py (alias)
- vcf2dag (alias)
- vcf2fasta (alias)
- vcf2sqlite.py (alias)
- vcf2tsv (alias)
- vcf_strip_extra_headers (alias)
- vcfaddinfo (alias)
- vcfafpath (alias)
- vcfallelicprimitives (alias)
- vcfaltcount (alias)
- vcfannotate (alias)
- vcfannotategenotypes (alias)
- vcfbiallelic (alias)
- vcfbreakmulti (alias)
- vcfcat (alias)
- vcfcheck (alias)
- vcfclassify (alias)
- vcfcleancomplex (alias)
- vcfclearid (alias)
- vcfclearinfo (alias)
- vcfcombine (alias)
- vcfcommonsamples (alias)
- vcfcomplex (alias)
- vcfcountalleles (alias)
- vcfcreatemulti (alias)
- vcfdistance (alias)
- vcfecho (alias)
- vcfentropy (alias)
- vcfevenregions (alias)
- vcffilter (alias)
- vcffirstheader (alias)
- vcffixup (alias)
- vcfflatten (alias)
- vcfgeno2alleles (alias)
- vcfgeno2haplo (alias)
- vcfgenosamplenames (alias)
- vcfgenosummarize (alias)
- vcfgenotypecompare (alias)
- vcfgenotypes (alias)
- vcfglbound (alias)
- vcfglxgt (alias)
- vcfgtcompare.sh (alias)
- vcfhetcount (alias)
- vcfhethomratio (alias)
- vcfindelproximity (alias)
- vcfindels (alias)
- vcfindex (alias)
- vcfinfo2qual (alias)
- vcfinfosummarize (alias)
- vcfintersect (alias)
- vcfjoincalls (alias)
- vcfkeepgeno (alias)
- vcfkeepinfo (alias)
- vcfkeepsamples (alias)
- vcfld (alias)
- vcfleftalign (alias)
- vcflength (alias)
- vcfmultiallelic (alias)
- vcfmultiway (alias)
- vcfmultiwayscripts (alias)
- vcfnobiallelicsnps (alias)
- vcfnoindels (alias)
- vcfnosnps (alias)
- vcfnulldotslashdot (alias)
- vcfnullgenofields (alias)
- vcfnumalt (alias)
- vcfoverlay (alias)
- vcfparsealts (alias)
- vcfplotaltdiscrepancy.r (alias)
- vcfplotaltdiscrepancy.sh (alias)
- vcfplotsitediscrepancy.r (alias)
- vcfplottstv.sh (alias)
- vcfprimers (alias)
- vcfprintaltdiscrepancy.r (alias)
- vcfprintaltdiscrepancy.sh (alias)
- vcfqual2info (alias)
- vcfqualfilter (alias)
- vcfrandom (alias)
- vcfrandomsample (alias)
- vcfregionreduce (alias)
- vcfregionreduce_and_cut (alias)
- vcfregionreduce_pipe (alias)
- vcfregionreduce_uncompressed (alias)
- vcfremap (alias)
- vcfremoveaberrantgenotypes (alias)
- vcfremovenonATGC (alias)
- vcfremovesamples (alias)
- vcfroc (alias)
- vcfsample2info (alias)
- vcfsamplediff (alias)
- vcfsamplenames (alias)
- vcfsitesummarize (alias)
- vcfsnps (alias)
- vcfsort (alias)
- vcfstats (alias)
- vcfstreamsort (alias)
- vcfuniq (alias)
- vcfuniqalleles (alias)
- vcfvarstats (alias)
- vcfwave (alias)
- wcFst (alias)

## Dépendances

- htslib
- libomp
- wfa2-lib
- xz

## Dépendances de compilation

- cmake
- pkgconf
- pybind11
- python@3.14

## Bibliothèques fournies par macOS

- bzip2

## Comportement d'installation

- hook post-installation: non défini
- Bouteille: disponible sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-07-08
- version du gestionnaire: 1.0.15
- gestionnaire mis à jour: 2026-06-21
- données locales: OK
- dépôt amont: https://github.com/vcflib/vcflib
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.
## Historique du projet et usages

vcflib is both a C++ library and a large collection of command-line utilities for parsing, transforming, filtering, normalizing, annotating, and summarizing VCF files. It is one of the Unix-style toolkits that grew around VCF after the format became the standard interchange format for genomic variant calls.

### Historique du projet

The vcflib README presents VCF as the de facto reporting format for many genomic variant detectors and describes vcflib as an API plus a command-line utility collection for complex VCF manipulation. The project originated with Erik Garrison and later became part of a broader vcflib organization containing related VCF tools.

In 2022, Garrison, Kronenberg, Dawson, Pedersen, and Prins published a PLOS Computational Biology software paper covering vcflib, bio-vcf, cyvcf2, hts-nim, and slivar. The paper describes more than 125 free and open-source tools and libraries for VCF processing, with vcflib providing performance-oriented C++ tools and a reusable API.

### Historique d'adoption

The 2022 PLOS paper states that VCF has been widely adopted since 2011 in population studies and somatic and germline mutation studies, and that the authors' tools run in critical biomedical pipelines and many shell scripts. That is the adoption setting in which vcflib matters: it is a toolbox for the messy middle of sequencing workflows.

The project has seen packaging and maintenance transitions common to mature bioinformatics software. GitHub releases show a 1.0 release in September 2019, a Python 3 transition around 2019, and continued 1.x releases into the 2020s.

### Modes d'utilisation

vcflib tools are designed to be composed in streaming pipelines. The README explicitly encourages using Unix pipes to interface with VCFtools, BEDTools, GATK, HTSlib, bio-vcf, bcftools, and FreeBayes while avoiding unnecessary intermediate files.

Typical commands cover filtering, set operations, left-aligning indels, decomposing or merging alleles, checking reference consistency, generating statistics, population-genetics metrics, converting VCF to other representations, and annotating records from BED or genotype information.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

vcflib is package-nerd significant because it is a bag of sharp, small bioinformatics commands rather than one monolithic analysis application. Installing it adds dozens of executables whose names encode the workflow vocabulary of VCF-heavy pipelines.

It also captures a real packaging challenge in scientific software: one project ships C++ utilities, scripts, Python bindings, and library headers, and users expect it to compose with a wider command-line genomics stack across Linux, macOS, containers, and workflow systems.

### Chronologie

- 2011: VCF is introduced and described with VCFtools, establishing the ecosystem vcflib later serves.
- 2016-02-08: vcflib v1.0.0-rc1 appears in GitHub releases.
- 2019-09-03: vcflib v1.0.0 is released.
- 2022-05-31: The PLOS Computational Biology software paper on vcflib and related VCF tools is published.
- 2023: vcflib 1.0.x maintenance releases continue on GitHub.

### Related projects

- VCFtools is the older VCF suite and standard paper that established much of the file-format context.
- bio-vcf, cyvcf2, hts-nim, and slivar are discussed with vcflib in the 2022 software paper as complementary tools for VCF processing.
- FreeBayes is a related variant caller and companion project in the VCF ecosystem.
- BEDTools, HTSlib, bcftools, GATK, and tabix-indexed workflows are common neighbors in pipelines that use vcflib.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/vcflib/vcflib/releases>
- <https://github.com/vcflib/vcflib>
- <https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009123>


## Notes de sécurité

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Risque Geiger:** blue / moyen
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Détails de la base source

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** vcflib
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable


## Liens liés

- [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family.
- [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata.
- [htslib](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/htslib/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [xz](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/xz/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [cmake](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/cmake/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [pkgconf](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/pkgconf/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [pybind11](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/pybind11/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [python@3.14](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/python-3-14/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [vcftools](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/vcftools/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, c-plus-plus, cli, genomics, science.
- [vcfanno](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/vcfanno/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, genomics, science, vcf.
- [abricate](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/abricate/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, genomics, science.
- [freebayes](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/freebayes/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, genomics, science, variant-calling.
- [gffread](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/gffread/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, genomics, science.
- [minigraph](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/minigraph/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, genomics, science.
- [stringtie](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/stringtie/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, genomics, science.
- [tabixpp](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/tabixpp/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, genomics, science.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/vcflib.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/vcflib.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
