extracting info from VCF files

[gfmgfm]

Hi all,

I have a vcf file with multiple samples.
Are there any existing tools to extract basic info, such as:
Number of SNPs called in each sample?

I guess it is easy to use command lines, but thought there might be tools that does this and more than that...

[gaffa]

You probably want to look into VCFtools (http://vcftools.sourceforge.net/). It's mostly for management/handling of VCF files, but it can also compute some basic stats on files, and can piped together with shell commands for more power.