Section Descriptions
The gVCF file contains the following sections:
| • | Metainformation lines start with ## and contain metadata, config information, and define the values that the INFO, FILTER, and FORMAT fields can have. |
| • | The header line starts with # and names the fields that the data lines use. These fields are #CHROM, POS, ID, REF, ALT, QUAL, FILTER, INFO, FORMAT, followed by one or more sample columns. |
| • | Data lines that contain information about one or more positions in the genome. |
| • | If you extract the variant lines from a gVCF file, you produce a conventional variant VCF file. |