What it does:

This tool allows the user to index sorted BCF for random access using BCFtools index from the SAMtools set of utilities:

http://samtools.sourceforge.net/samtools.shtml#4

Citation:

For the underlying tool, please cite Li H, Handsaker B, Wysoker A, Fennell T, Ruan J, Homer N, Marth G, Abecasis G, Durbin R; 1000 Genome Project Data Processing Subgroup. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools. Bioinformatics. 2009 Aug 15;25(16):2078-9.

If you use this tool within Galaxy, please cite Gregory Minevich, Danny S. Park, Daniel Blankenberg, Richard J. Poole, and Oliver Hobert. CloudMap: A Cloud-based Pipeline for Analysis of Mutant Genome Sequences. (Genetics 2012 In Press)

Correspondence to gm2123@columbia.edu (G.M.) or or38@columbia.edu (O.H.)