samtools/bcftools 1.8

on GitHub

• -i, -e filtering: Support for custom perl scripts

• +contrast: New plugin to annotate genotype differences between groups of samples

• +fixploidy: New options for simpler ploidy usage

• +setGT: Target genotypes can be set to phased by giving --new-gt p

• run-roh.pl: Allow to pass options directly to bcftools roh

• Number of bug fixes

The bcftools-1.8.tar.bz2 download is the full source code release. The “Source code” downloads are generated by GitHub and are incomplete as they don't bundle HTSlib and are missing some generated files.