diff --git a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/refdata/rodGELI.java b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/refdata/rodGELI.java
index df0cb1e7a..51d313c29 100755
--- a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/refdata/rodGELI.java
+++ b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/refdata/rodGELI.java
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ import java.io.File;
 
 import edu.mit.broad.picard.genotype.geli.GeliFileReader;
 import edu.mit.broad.picard.genotype.geli.GenotypeLikelihoods;
+import edu.mit.broad.picard.genotype.DiploidGenotype;
+import edu.mit.broad.picard.variation.KnownVariant;
 import org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.GenomeLoc;
 import org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.GenomeLocParser;
 
@@ -28,7 +30,9 @@ public class rodGELI extends BasicReferenceOrderedDatum {
 	public rodGELI(final String name, GenotypeLikelihoods gh) {
 		super(name);
         this.gh = gh;
-	}
+	    if ( true )
+            throw new RuntimeException("This class is no longer supported because of issues with GELIs");
+    }
 
 	@Override
 	public GenomeLoc getLocation() {
@@ -46,7 +50,20 @@ public class rodGELI extends BasicReferenceOrderedDatum {
 
 	@Override
 	public String toString() {
-        return gh.toString();
+        final StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
+        builder.append(gh.getSequenceName() + "\t");
+        builder.append(gh.getPosition() + "\t");
+        builder.append(Character.toString((char)(gh.getReferenceBase() & 0xff)) + "\t");
+        builder.append(gh.getNumReads() + "\t");
+        builder.append(gh.getMaxMappingQuality() + "\t");
+        builder.append(gh.getBestGenotype().name() + "\t");
+        builder.append(gh.getBestToReferenceLod() + "\t");
+        builder.append(gh.getBestToSecondBestLod() + "\t");
+        builder.append("\t"); // no dbSNP info in GenotypeLikelihoods class
+        for (final DiploidGenotype genotype : DiploidGenotype.values())
+            builder.append(gh.getLikelihood(genotype) + "\t");
+        builder.append("\n");
+        return builder.toString();
 	}
 
 	private static class rodGELIIterator implements Iterator<rodGELI> {
@@ -78,4 +95,45 @@ public class rodGELI extends BasicReferenceOrderedDatum {
 	public static Iterator<rodGELI> createIterator(String name, File file) {
 		return new rodGELI.rodGELIIterator(name,file);
 	}
+
+    public static void main(String argv[]) {
+        String testFile = "NA12878.geli";
+
+        Iterator<rodGELI> it = createIterator("test-geli", new File(testFile));
+
+        net.sf.picard.reference.ReferenceSequenceFileWalker reference = new net.sf.picard.reference.ReferenceSequenceFileWalker(new File(  "/seq/references/Homo_sapiens_assembly18/v0/Homo_sapiens_assembly18.fasta"));
+
+        if ( reference.getSequenceDictionary() == null ) {
+            System.out.println("No reference sequence dictionary found. Abort.");
+            System.exit(1);
+        }
+
+        GenomeLocParser.setupRefContigOrdering(reference.getSequenceDictionary());
+
+        int counter = 0;
+
+        while ( it.hasNext() && counter < 500 ) {
+            rodGELI rg = it.next();
+            System.out.println(rg.toString());
+/*
+			System.out.print(p.getLocation().toString());
+			System.out.print('\t');
+
+			if ( p.isIndel() && p.isSNP() ) { System.out.print("Indel+SNP"); }
+			else {
+				if ( p.isSNP() ) { System.out.print("SNP"); }
+				else {
+					if ( p.isIndel() ) { System.out.print("Indel"); }
+					else { System.out.print("REF"); }
+				}
+			}
+
+			System.out.print('\t');
+			System.out.print(p.getFWDAlleles().get(0)+"/"+p.getFWDAlleles().get(1));
+			System.out.print('\t');
+			System.out.println(p.getConsensusConfidence()+"\t"+p.getVariantConfidence());
+			*/
+            counter++;
+        }
+    }
 }
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