Who is in charge of updating VCF format?

Question

[Chen Sun]

Variant Call Format (VCF) is in its 4.3 version now.

Who is in charge of updating its format standard?

Answer 1

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

https://samtools.github.io/

Samtools at GitHub is an umbrella organisation encompassing several groups working on formats and tools for next-generation sequencing:

https://github.com/samtools/hts-specs/issues

https://github.com/samtools/hts-specs/pulls

members: https://github.com/orgs/samtools/people

[Brian Bushnell]

Hmm, I recognize Etna and Psyduck. Didn't realize they were so big in bioinformatics...

Answer 2

[h.mon]

The SAMtools organization.

That means a handful of people. VCF specification resides at SAMtools github, you may look at the commit history to see individual contributions.