Class

vcfc:FieldDefinition

A reusable specification- or file-level definition of an INFO, FORMAT, FILTER, ALT, or META key. It is not itself a VCF header line: a concrete file declaration uses the corresponding *HeaderLine subclass.

IRI: https://w3id.org/vcf-core/vocab#FieldDefinition
Label: field definition
Declared Types: owl:Class
Primary Source: vcf-core-vocabulary.bundle.ttl
SHACL: vcf-core-vocabulary.shacl.ttl

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Subclass Of	`vcfc:InfoFieldDefinition`	The definition of one INFO key, including its ID, Number, Type, and human-readable Description. It specifies how that key's site-level annotation values must be interpreted.
Subclass Of	`vcfc:FormatFieldDefinition`	The definition of one FORMAT key, including its ID, Number, Type, and human-readable Description. It specifies how the corresponding per-sample values must be interpreted. Since version 1.1.0, it can also declare a condensed vcfc:FormatValueVector through vcfc:declaredBy.
Subclass Of	`vcfc:FilterDefinition`	The definition of one FILTER failure code. A VCF record that fails this criterion cites the code in its semicolon-separated FILTER value.
Subclass Of	`vcfc:AltDefinition`	The definition of one symbolic ALT identifier. It provides the meaning of an angle-bracketed alternate allele such as '<DEL>' without asserting a particular variation model.
Range	`vcfc:declaredBy`	Links an INFO, FORMAT, FILTER, or ALT value/usage to its header definition line. Since version 1.1.0, a FormatValueVector uses this property to identify the FORMAT key that defines every position in the vector.
Domain	`vcfc:declaredOnLine`	Links a reusable field definition to the concrete HeaderLine that declares it in one VCF file. This keeps specification-level registry definitions distinct from file-local header-line occurrences.
Domain	`vcfc:fieldId`	The ID attribute of an INFO or FORMAT field declaration. It is the key used to identify a value in the INFO column or FORMAT-ordered sample data and is unique within its header-line type.
Domain	`vcfc:fieldNumber`	The Number attribute from an INFO or FORMAT definition, retained as a string because VCF permits both integers and symbolic arities. A, R, and G follow REF/ALT or genotype order; '.' means variable, unknown, or unbounded; FORMAT also permits LA, LR, LG, P, and M.
Domain	`vcfc:fieldType`	Links an INFO or FORMAT field declaration to its VCF Type. INFO supports Integer, Float, Flag, Character, and String; FORMAT supports all of those except Flag.
Domain	`vcfc:fieldDescription`	The human-readable Description attribute from a structured INFO, FORMAT, FILTER, or ALT header declaration. VCF requires this attribute to be quoted in the source header.
Subclass Of	`vcfc:MetaDefinition`	A ##META declaration represented as a reusable field definition. Its fieldId, fieldArity, and fieldType describe attributes used on ##SAMPLE lines.
Domain	`vcfc:fieldArity`	Links a field definition with a symbolic VCF Number arity. For a fixed count, use fieldNumberInteger; fieldNumber always preserves the exact source token.
Domain	`vcfc:fieldNumberInteger`	field Number integer