diff --git a/perl/maf_annotation/annotate_single_maf.pl b/perl/maf_annotation/annotate_single_maf.pl
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+++ b/perl/maf_annotation/annotate_single_maf.pl
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+#!/util/bin/perl -w
+use strict;
+
+if (scalar(@ARGV) != 1) {
+    die("Usage: annotate_single_maf.pl <maf>\n");
+}
+
+my ($maf) = @ARGV;
+
+my $cmd = "use matlab && " .
+		      "matlab <<STOP\n" .
+          "addpath /home/radon00/lawrence/CancerGenomeAnalysis/trunk/matlab/mike" . "\n" .
+          "addpath /home/radon00/lawrence/CancerGenomeAnalysis/trunk/matlab/seq" . "\n" .
+          "addpath /home/radon00/lawrence/CancerGenomeAnalysis/trunk/matlab" . "\n" .
+          "annotate_maflite('$maf', '$maf.annotated')" . "\n" .
+          "quit" . "\n" .
+          "STOP" . "\n";
+
+system($cmd) == 0 or die();
diff --git a/perl/maf_annotation/vcf_to_germline_maflite.pl b/perl/maf_annotation/vcf_to_germline_maflite.pl
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+++ b/perl/maf_annotation/vcf_to_germline_maflite.pl
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+#!/util/bin/perl
+$|++;
+use strict;
+
+if (scalar(@ARGV) != 1 ) {
+    die("usage vcf_to_germline_maflite.pl <normalAlias>\n");
+}
+ 
+my ($normalAlias) = @ARGV;
+my $line;
+while (defined($line = <STDIN>)) {
+    if ($line =~ /#/) { next; }
+
+    my ($chrom, $pos, $rsName, $ref, $alt, $qual, $filter, $info, $format, $sampleA) = split("\t", $line);
+
+    my ($genoNum) = split(":", $sampleA);
+    my ($geno1, $geno2) = split("/",$genoNum);
+       
+    my $allele1 = "N";
+    my $allele2 = "N";
+    if ( $geno1 eq "0") { 
+        $allele1 = $ref;
+    } elsif ($geno1 eq "1") {
+        $allele1 = $alt;
+    } else {
+        die("only handled single alt currently:\n$line \n");
+    }
+
+    if ( $geno2 eq "0") { 
+        $allele2 = $ref;
+    } elsif ($geno2 eq "1") {
+        $allele2 = $alt;
+    } else {
+        die("only handled single alt currently:\n$line\n");
+    }
+
+    my $ncbiBuild = "36";
+    print join("\t", ($ncbiBuild, $chrom, $pos, $pos, $ref, $allele1, $allele2, $normalAlias, $normalAlias)) . "\n";
+}
diff --git a/python/maf_annotation/AnnotateVCFwithMAF.py b/python/maf_annotation/AnnotateVCFwithMAF.py
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+++ b/python/maf_annotation/AnnotateVCFwithMAF.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import sys, FlatFileTable, os
+
+if sys.argv < 3:
+    print "Usage: AnnotateVCFwithMAF.py VCF_file MAF_file"
+    sys.exit()
+    
+vcf_filename = sys.argv[1]
+maf_filename = sys.argv[2]
+
+maf_gen = FlatFileTable.record_generator(maf_filename, "\t")
+
+headers=["gene","type","transcript","strand","genomechange","cDNAchange","codonchange","proteinchange"]
+
+loci_and_info = []
+
+for record in maf_gen:
+    #print record
+    #info_string = ",".join(["%s=%s" % (header, record[header]) for header in headers])
+    info_string = ""
+    for index,header in enumerate(headers):
+        if record.has_key(header):
+            if index > 0:
+                info_string += ","
+            info_string += "%s=%s" % (header, record[header])
+
+    locus = record["chr"]+":"+record["start"]
+            
+    #print locus, info_string
+    loci_and_info.append((locus, info_string))
+    
+#vcf_gen = FlatFileTable.record_generator(vcf_file, "\t", 34)
+vcf_file = open(vcf_filename)
+vcf_out_file = open(os.path.splitext(vcf_filename)[0]+".maf_annotated.vcf", "w")
+vcf_format_line = vcf_file.readline()
+vcf_out_file.write(vcf_format_line)
+if vcf_format_line != "##fileformat=VCFv3.3\n":
+    print ("VCF not v 3.3")
+    sys.exit()
+
+for i in range(33):
+    vcf_out_file.write(vcf_file.readline())
+
+header_fields = vcf_file.readline()
+vcf_out_file.write(header_fields)
+if not header_fields.startswith("#CHROM\tPOS\tID\tREF\tALT\tQUAL\tFILTER\tINFO\tFORMAT"):
+    print ("VCF header fields not in expected order")
+    print header_fields
+    sys.exit()
+
+for vcf_line, locus_and_info in zip(vcf_file.readlines(), loci_and_info):
+    vcf_line_fields = vcf_line.split("\t")
+    vcf_locus = vcf_line_fields[0]+":"+vcf_line_fields[1]
+    #print record
+    maf_locus, maf_info = locus_and_info
+    if maf_locus != vcf_locus:
+        print "ERROR: VCF and MAF loci did not match"
+        sys.exit()
+    
+    vcf_line_fields[7] = vcf_line_fields[7]+","+maf_info
+    new_vcf_line = "\t".join(vcf_line_fields)
+    vcf_out_file.write(new_vcf_line)
+    
+    
+    
+    
+    
+    
+    
+    
+    
+    
+    
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