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Expand Up @@ -182,6 +182,8 @@ with gzip.open("output.vcf.gz", "wt") as f:

However, this gzipped VCF won't be fully compatible with downstream tools
such as tabix, which usually require the VCF to use the specialised bgzip format.
If you want to write bgzip files directly within python, you could try the `Bio.bgzf`
library provided by [biopython](https://biopython.org).

(sec_export_vcf_masking_output)=

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