File Formats in Bioinformatics Toolbox

I'm interested in trying the bioinformatics toolbox. Is there a way to load a .vcf file into this toolbox, such as those generated from the 1000 Genomes Project? My own data is in Plink bed/bim/fam format, which would also be convenient to load in, although I can convert this to the standard .vcf.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

https://github.com/neurospin/plinkio is a python package for reading that format, that you could probably call from MATLAB.

Answer 2

[Achal Mahajan]

Hi Hary,

It depends on what kind of analysis you are interested in, but genomics viewer does support .vcf format (link).

-Achal