text: user1365: Does anyone know a good, free-to-use VCF file inspector app (Mac OS, with GUI) where I can browse the content of a VCF file similarly to bamseek*?
  I would like to browse SNP annotation split by columns, possibly even filter it.
  '* Bamseek does not work for me, fails at open file. It anyways seems to be an abandonware.
  Example table view from an expensive commercial software:
  
  
  user71: I wrote vcf2table: http://lindenb.github.io/jvarkit/VcfToTable.html
  bcftools view in.bcf |  java -jar dist/vcf2table.jar | more
  
  
  and http://lindenb.github.io/jvarkit/SwingVcfView.html
  
  java -jar dist/swingvcfview.jar indexed.vcf.gz
  
  
  user3694: OK it's a command line program, not a GUI, but bcftools query and bcftools view can easily be used to to view elements of a vcf/bcf file and are (probably) a lot more flexible and scalable than a GUI. Examples from here:
  $ bcftools query -f '%CHROM %POS %REF %ALT\n' file.bcf | head -3
  1 13380 C G
  1 16071 G A
  1 16141 C T
  
  $ bcftools query -f '%CHROM %POS  GTs:[ %GT]\t PLs:[ %PL]\n' file.bcf | head -3
  1 10234  GTs: 1/1 1/1    PLs: 28,3,0 29,3,0
  1 10291  GTs: ./. 1/1    PLs: 0,0,0 28,3,0
  1 14907  GTs: 0/1 0/1    PLs: 8,0,17 26,0,48
  
  
original_text: 1365: <p>Does anyone know a good, free-to-use VCF file inspector app (Mac OS, with GUI) where I can browse the content of a VCF file <a href="https://mybiosoftware.com/bamseek-20110724-browse-large-bam-sam-alignment-files.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">similarly to bamseek</a>*?</p>
  <p>I would like to browse SNP annotation split by columns, possibly even filter it.</p>
  <p>'* Bamseek does not work for me, fails at open file. It anyways seems to be an abandonware.</p>
  <p>Example table view from an expensive commercial software:
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/yzAwe.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/yzAwe.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
   71: <p>I wrote vcf2table: <a href="http://lindenb.github.io/jvarkit/VcfToTable.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://lindenb.github.io/jvarkit/VcfToTable.html</a></p>
  <pre><code>bcftools view in.bcf |  java -jar dist/vcf2table.jar | more
  </code></pre>
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Tc4w.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Tc4w.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
  <p>and <a href="http://lindenb.github.io/jvarkit/SwingVcfView.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://lindenb.github.io/jvarkit/SwingVcfView.html</a></p>
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/UVKJ7.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/UVKJ7.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
  <pre><code>java -jar dist/swingvcfview.jar indexed.vcf.gz
  </code></pre>
   3694: <p>OK it's a command line program, not a GUI, but <code>bcftools query</code> and <code>bcftools view</code> can easily be used to to view elements of a vcf/bcf file and are (probably) a lot more flexible and scalable than a GUI. Examples from <a href="https://samtools.github.io/bcftools/howtos/query.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>:</p>
  <pre><code>$ bcftools query -f '%CHROM %POS %REF %ALT\n' file.bcf | head -3
  1 13380 C G
  1 16071 G A
  1 16141 C T
  </code></pre>
  <pre><code>$ bcftools query -f '%CHROM %POS  GTs:[ %GT]\t PLs:[ %PL]\n' file.bcf | head -3
  1 10234  GTs: 1/1 1/1    PLs: 28,3,0 29,3,0
  1 10291  GTs: ./. 1/1    PLs: 0,0,0 28,3,0
  1 14907  GTs: 0/1 0/1    PLs: 8,0,17 26,0,48
  </code></pre>
  