Questions tagged [vcf]
VCF, acronym for Variant Calling Format, is a text file type used to store information regarding genetic variants.
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R package grur: missing_visualization() fails during redundancy analysis of .vcf
I am trying to use the R package grur to process GBS SNP data, which is installed from github as instructed. For starters, I am running the test code in this vignette. As suggested I am running it ...
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Script Giving error at paste command
I wrote script for pasting rsids on CADD output. Here is script.
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bcftools filtering all files in a directory
Probably a silly oversight on my part, but I'm trying to filter all the vcfs in a directory with bcftools using a simple loop. My basic command is working fine:
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how to filter a multi-VCF for sex-specific genotypes?
I have a single VCF file of variants for a population that includes males & females and I would like to pull out all variants that are sex-specific. For example, sites where all males are 0/1 and ...
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calling diploid SNVs from long reads
I'd like to call diploid SNV variants from long-reads data (~80SMRTcells PacBio).
I have generated a draft reference genome for an indivudual from a heterozygous (~4%) species (Canu+Haplomerger2).
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How to paste RSIDs in CADD output
I want to paste RSIDs in CADD output as CADD does not give RSID column in its output. For this purpose I am using bedtools intersect to compare two files and have RSID column in my CADD file.
This is ...
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How to use FastQTL with LeafCutter?
I am following along with the example data in the LeafCutter documentation and I am a bit stuck on the final step of using FastQTL to generate QTL maps. Documentation for FastQTL is scant and so are ...
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Combine VCF files
I have a problem with using rbind to combine VCF files using the library VariantAnnotation from Bioconductor.
I am reading two VCF files, when I try to combine them in a certain order with 'rbind' I'...
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Sampling haplotypes
I am trying to simulate different genome of peoples, I have data (VCF files) of various genes from the 1000K Gene project.
I want to simulate different whole genomes i.e generate a new population by ...
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Best practices for deciding if two structural variants are actually the same variant?
I know that I can use bcftools isec to compare two VCF files containing single nucleotide variants (SNVs); it will generate four possible output files: one with all ...
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Simplest way to work out structural variant type?
In VCF 4.2, a strucutral variant can be described with the BND keyword in SVTYPE. For example, the following example is an ...
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No variant found using GATK 4.0 HaplotypeCaller
I am doing variant calling on RNA-seq datasets from wheat which is hexaploid,the binary alignment (BAM) files were created using STAR version 2.6.0c and variant calling was done using GATK 4.0 ...
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High Phred Quality score VCF file
I am working on ION Torrent S5 XL and I am facing to an issue with VCF output generated by the variant caller of thermofisher. It stating on VCF 4.1 that Phred Quality Score is on a range of 0 to 255. ...
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How to convert files to ADAM format?
I would like to convert BAM and VCF files to ADAM format.
How do I do that?
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Meaning of the FORMAT fields of the VCF file coming from GIAB project
After reading the GIAB paper in https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/05/25/281006 and its Figure 1, I am still having trouble understanding the data inside the GIAB VCF file for HG001 (...
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Normalize by counting CNV within a pool of VCF files
I’m (trying) using the GATK4 germline CNV calling pipeline. I successfully got 57 VCFs from my sample batch, called with segments (obtained by merging the contiguous intervals), like in a classic VCF :...
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How to filter for “CAF=0.5747,0.4253”
In my gzipped VCF file I have many variants, and they report allele frequency such as:
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bcftools consensus not working when using -H flag
Sorry, I have been trying to work this out desparately all day. Biostars couldn't find any answer so I am cross posting here https://www.biostars.org/p/315458/#315686 .
I am trying to get both the ...
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Protein sequence from patient data
Currently, I am working on NGS data and my aim is to get significance prediction of variants present in the vcf file. As we know about SIFT Score for significance score prediction, I am trying to ...
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update dbSNP ID
I have used dbSNP build 138 to tag 'rs' ID in my VCF file. But later I came to know that now dbSNP build 150 has been released. I want to update the rs IDs in my VCF file.
I tried but I found a ...
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How to add OVERLAP_BP field to VEP output?
I'm using the Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor (VEP) to annotate VCF files, and I am trying to add some additional fields to the output, among these is OVERLAP_BP, ...
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Error filtering SNPs with Plink
Im trying to filter SNPs using PLINK with this command. Also, the .map and .ped files were converted to a plink format from a vcf file (...
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GATK CombineVariants complains the contig order in the VCF files
I have called variants on two strains of C. elegans separately. I now want to merge the VCF files into one using the following code:
Create a sequence dictionary of the reference sequence
Sort the ...
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Keep Format and Individual fields when annotating VCF with VEP
I'm currently updating my Variant Calling Pipeline by switching the VCF annotating software from Annovar to VEP for a variety of regions, not least how easy it is to annotate with HGVS notation and ...
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Merge 2 VCFs from different variant callers
I am working with WES data for detection of somatic variants and I have used two variant callers because no variant caller is complete in itself. I have used GATK Haplotypecaller for small variants ...
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Complete Genomics Junction file for SV Detection
At present, I have vcf file for each patient generated from tumor data. I am using virtual normal correction method for somatic mutation detection because I don't have normal data. For SNP or small ...
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Converting a BAM file into VCF
I have NGS illumina RNA-seq reads from M. musculus (mm10). I am trying to find variants along the strand portion of the reads in the refseq (mm10).
I mapped a pair of sequence files and generated a ...
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How to get unique somatic mutations for each individual patients
I have exome data 32 patients. My aim is to identify unique somatic mutations in each patients. For this I have completed my pipeline for Whole Exome Data analysis using various tools like BWA mem, ...
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Converting VCF file to PLINK bed/bim/fam files
I am trying to find the best way to convert VCF files to PLINK binary bed/bim/fam files, but it seems like there are many varied ways to do this. (For example, using Plink 1.9 --vcf tag, bcftools, ...
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Can a data file in VCF format be converted into FASTA?
I'm considering purchasing the 'MyGenome' product by Veritas Genetics to analyze my genome for a project. I'd like the data to be in FASTA format, but Veritas only provides VCF data. Is it possible to ...
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Post ipyrad filtering of SNP loci from GBS, based on SNP quality
I want to use SNPs produced by ipyrad analysis of GBS data in RAxML to examine the monophyly of a highly-variable focal species and its phylogenetic relationships with about 40 congeners. An initial ...
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How to subset samples from a VCF file?
I have VCF files (SNPs & indels) for WGS on 100 samples, but I want to only use a specific subset of 10 of the samples. Is there a relatively easy way to pull out only the 10 samples, while still ...
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Tools to do VCF to MAF and MAF to VCF conversion?
Normally, I would use the vcf2maf scripts to convert a VCF to a MAF (or vice versa).
This is great software, but on my system, perl scripts with dependencies are easy to break. (Here it uses VEP.)
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How to subset a VCF by chromosome and keep the header?
I would like to subset a VCF which only has chromosome 2.
The problem with using various grep commands, e.g.
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How to concatenate “by chromosome”-VCFs?
I have a several VCFs which are VCF which only contain information by chromosome. That is, there's a chromosome 1 VCF (with only chr1), a chromosome 2 VCF (with only chr2), etc.
I checked to make ...
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ethnicity check either from bam or vcf files
What tool could I use to check the ethnicity of a human bam or vcf file? I would like to use the results as a QC check to know whether a given sample or set of samples match the ethnicity information ...
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Approximate matches with bedtools intersect
I am using bedtools to test whether a set of variant calls produced by a new method is missing any variants from a set of known validated variants.
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Intersecting two different files with one “master” file based on different columns
I have the following sets of data:
file1:
1 15776220 15776240 GTGACCAGCAGGTGTCTCTG 16855676 16855696 CTGTCCAGCAGAGGGCGGTG
file2:
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Using column 2 of one file to match with two columns of another file, and append
I have file 1 like following:
1 15776220 15776240 GTGACCAGCAGGTGTCTCTG 16855676 16855696 CTGTCCAGCAGAGGGCGGTG
And file 2 as following
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How to indicate the END of a haplotype block in VCF?
In VCF I know how to indicate that two genotypes are in the same phase by using consecutive "0|1" and "1|0" genotype fields, for example. However, how do I deal with the case that the first two ...
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Using Python, how to convert a pandas DataFrame into a VCF?
Let's say I have a pandas dataframe with fields CHROM, POS, ALT, ...
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Where can I get the population allele frequency vcf file?
I want to use GATK to Estimate cross-sample contamination for Whole Genome Sequencing data.
The specific tool is ContEst and it is run with:
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Is it possible to check if a patient has the HLA-B27 antigen from his exome stored in a VCF file
Is it possible to check if patient has the HLAB27 antigen by comparing his exome stored in VCF with all known HLAB27 variants?
For instance, rs4349859 is a known HLAB27 SNP.
If I can find rs4349859 ...
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bcftools output vs. bgzip
I've got what seems like it should be a simple question, but I can't seem to figure it out from google. bcftools has 4 output options:
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Converting a VCF into a FASTA given a reference with Python, R
I am interested in converting a VCF file into a FASTA file given a reference sequence with Python or R.
Samtools/BCFtools (Heng Li) provides a Perl script ...
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Any fast options to query large VCF bed intervals?
I'm doing some analysis and I need to subset a large VCF file (~8GB gziped) given a bed interval and identify within a subset of rsid.
Unfortunately, both my normal choices to do this analysis (<...
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VCF merge containing CNV
How do I merge VCFs files containing CNVs?
I use vcf-merge, a VCFtools function, and after bgzip and tabix, SAMtools, to index and tab separate variants, but I don't know if it is the right way.
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How to represent a deletion at position 1 in a VCF file?
I am writing a small script to write a VCF file from short multiple sequence alignments, and stumbled into an interesting corner case.
This is the way a deletion should be represented in VCF format (...
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Is there a way to quickly verify the presence of some SNPs in Fastq files?
Is there a tool that can scan fastq files without assembling them for a custom list of user defined snps?
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Tools to create annotated table of variants from VCF
The problem: I have a VCF file, a reference genome, and a bunch of annotations for the reference (genes, repeat regions, etc.) as GFF or BED files.
What I would like is a tool that takes all of this ...
