How best to extract BCF records based on result of WAH query?

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How best to extract BCF records based on result of WAH query?

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Answer 1 · 2014-11-14T16:15:38.000Z

We currently stream through each line of the file. It may be better to jump lines when there are large gaps, but we need to either 1) get more direct access to the BCF compressed blocks, including the number of records per block, or 2) match chr/pos with lines to use the bcf streaming api.