This does work but I'm wondering why they are given the name ending in .vcf.bgz to begin with. We shouldn't have to rename the file in order to decompress it. 'bgz' isn't a recognizable file extension and gzip/gunzip do not allow that. If it is a gzipped vcf it should really be called .vcf.gz. tar.gz is a special case where it can be shortened to 'tgz'.
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Hello,
what kind of analysis do you like to perform?
Normaly there is no need to unzip. Most existing software for anslyising vcf can handle compressed file. If you write your own one, there is a good chance that there is a module which can handle it.
One more thing you can do is to use
zcat. This prints the content of a compressed file directly to stdout and you can read it in on the fly to your program.fin swimmer