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| == Left alignment == | | == Left alignment == |
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− | A variant is left aligned if it is no longer possible to shift its position to the left while keeping the length of all alleles constant. | + | A variant is left aligned if it is no longer possible to shift its position to the left while keeping the length of all alleles constant. |
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| * <span style="color:#ff0000">The representation of variants in a VCF file requires that no alleles in the REF and ALT field are represented with an empty string (empty allele). The red indel is an illegal VCF representation.</span> | | * <span style="color:#ff0000">The representation of variants in a VCF file requires that no alleles in the REF and ALT field are represented with an empty string (empty allele). The red indel is an illegal VCF representation.</span> |