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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Remove variants that do not map to human genome
I received an hg38 VCF file that's had variants imputed with 1000 genomes. I've encountered some issues with the VCF; REF alleles that do not align to a reference genome, ALT alleles that do not ...
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Index VCF file for rapid access by rsID?
With tabix one can index a VCF file for rapid variant retrieval based on genomic position. I'm wondering if there are any tools that will index a VCF file to allow rapid retrieval using rsIDs and/or ...
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How to compute LD for pairs in Plink
I have a set of SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms), S1...SN, from approximately 200 humans. I wish to determine the linkage disequilibrium (LD) for a defined subset of these SNPs. By this I mean e....
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Parsing .vcf file for this information
I have a .vcf file
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8v73nppwg3a1tnd/LP2000109-DNA_A01_vs_LP2000103-DNA_A01.SVannotated.txt?dl=0
with this header
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how do I convert a vcf file for a GWAS study (using R package vcfR)
I have a vcf file with individual level genetic data, that I read using the R package vcfR
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Filter VCF for “CAF=[0.9,0.1]”
Related to this other question
but in this case the CAF is defined as "An ordered, comma delimited list of allele frequencies...".
I tried using vcffilterjdk and the command suggested by Pierre
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Searching tool to calculate phase/switch error rate
I'm looking for a tool which, given a truth vcf file and a test vcf file, calculates the phase/switch error rate. I performed phasing of a vcf using WhatsHap and want to compare the outcome to some ...
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How can I remove (non-trivial) duplicates from a VCF file?
This is related to the question I asked here. Consider a vcf file that contains duplicate variants, but where the duplicates aren't simply the same thing in the same notation but instead one is a ...
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Are duplicate variants against the VCF standard?
I have been trying to understand an error that the EBI's vcf_validator gives when run on my vcf file. Consider this minimal file:
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Selecting 65000 SNPs where AF is close to 0.5 in all or most populations
I am evaluating the tool somalier (https://github.com/brentp/somalier) and I need to create a list of about 65,000 SNPs where the allele frequency (AF) is as close to 0.5 as possible across the most ...
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How to check if indels in VCF files are left or right aligned?
I downloaded a VCF file from dbSNP, and I'm curious if the indels in the file are left-aligned for GRCH37 genome. The documentation doesn't say anything.
How can we tell if a VCF file has left or ...
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structural variants: why doesn't AS + AP = SU?
I have run smoove then duphold on 46 individuals, then pasted the duphold output back into a squared vcf with all 46 samples.
I have been using SU/AC as one of my filters, looking for variants that ...
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Sort vcf by contig and position within contig
Due to tabix constraints, I need to sort a vcf so that contigs and then positions within contigs occur in numerical order in the vcf. I don't know if the following will sort positions within contigs, ...
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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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Bash script 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 ...
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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 structural variant (SV) 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.
I am trying to get both the left and right reference genome using a ...
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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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