This page is to support discussion of the draft spec for the Variant Call Format (VCF), in which the 1000 Genomes SNP and short indel calls will be released. There is currently a proposal on the table for a new version of VCF VCF4.0 (drafted May 12th, 2010). The aim of this update is to improve the various data types and missing values used in the VCF file and to derive a consensus for placing sho