removing a word from a .vcf

Question

[matt81rd]

Hi all,

I'm aware that this is probanly extremly simple but i can't for the life of me work out how to removing a specific word from a .vcf i am creating.

##fileformat=VCFv4.2
##reference=NC_000962.3
##ALT=<ID=NON_REF,Description="Represents any possible alternative allele at this location">
##INFO=<ID=VARIANT,TYPE=Float,Description="The Gene affected by SNP including the amino acid ref, alt and position">
#CHROM  POS ID  REF ALT QUAL    FILTER  INFO    FORMAT  
ChrI    3987201 .   g   t   .   .   Gene=ddn;Variant=A120S      
ChrI    2714177 .   g   t   .   .   Gene=eis;Variant=L386I      
ChrI    4243489 .   g   t   .   .   Gene=embA;Variant=G86V      
ChrI    4249616 .   g   a   .   .   Gene=embB;Variant=G1035S        
ChrI    4327404 .   g   a   .   .   Gene=ethA;Variant=Q24!      
ChrI    1673851 .   a   g   .   .   Gene=fabG1;Variant=a-351g       
ChrI    4407853 .   c   t   .   .   Gene=gid;Variant=G117E      
ChrI    7971    .   a   g   .   .   Gene=gyrA;Variant=K224E     
ChrI    6736    .   c   a   .   .   Gene=gyrB;Variant=N499K     
ChrI    1674749 .   g   a   .   .   Gene=inhA;Variant=G183D     
ChrI    2155648 .   t   c   .   .   Gene=katG;Variant=Y155C     
ChrI    2288953 .   c   t   .   .   Gene=pncA;Variant=G97S      
ChrI    801268  .   t   c   .   .   Gene=rplC;Variant=C154R     
ChrI    761139  .   ca  ac  .   .   Gene=rpoB;Variant=H445T     
ChrI    781879  .   t   c   .   .   Gene=rpsL;Variant=V107A     
ChrI    1473342 .   g   a   .   .   Gene=rrs;Variant=g1497a     
ChrI    1918625 .   c   g   .   .   Gene=tlyA;Variant=P229R 

I need to remove the word 'FORMAT' on the 5th line but not sure how specifically to do this?

[mohammadhassanj]

Remove columns from the VCF file using vcftools

[GenoMax]

I need to remove the word 'FORMAT' on the 5th line

You could simply open the file in a proper editor (not Word) and delete the word. Assuming you just want to remove that single instance.

Or you could edit in place by sed 's/FORMAT//' your_file.