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.TH "VCFRANDOMSAMPLE" "1" "" "vcfrandomsample (vcflib)" "vcfrandomsample (VCF
statistics)"
.hy
.SH NAME
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\f[B]vcfrandomsample\f[R]
.SH SYNOPSIS
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\f[B]vcfrandomsample\f[R] options []
.SH DESCRIPTION
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Randomly sample sites from an input VCF file, which may be provided as
stdin.
Scale the sampling probability by the field specified in KEY.
This may be used to provide uniform sampling across allele frequencies,
for instance.
.SH OPTIONS
.IP
.nf
\f[C]

options:
    -r, --rate RATE          base sampling probability per locus
    -s, --scale-by KEY       scale sampling likelihood by this Float info field
    -p, --random-seed N      use this random seed (by default read from /dev/random)
    -q, --pseudorandom-seed  use a pseudorandom seed (by default read from /dev/random)

\f[R]
.fi
.SH EXIT VALUES
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.B \f[B]0\f[R]
Success
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.B \f[B]not 0\f[R]
Failure
.SH SEE ALSO
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\f[B]vcflib\f[R](1)
.SH OTHER
.SH LICENSE
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Copyright 2011-2020 (C) Erik Garrison and vcflib contributors.
MIT licensed.
.SH AUTHORS
Erik Garrison and vcflib contributors.