diff --git a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/playground/gatk/walkers/variants/IVFSecondaryBases.java b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/playground/gatk/walkers/variants/IVFSecondaryBases.java
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+package org.broadinstitute.sting.playground.gatk.walkers.variants;
+
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.LocusContext;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.MathUtils;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.ReadBackedPileup;
+
+public class IVFSecondaryBases implements IndependentVariantFeature {
+    private double[] p2on = { 0.000, 0.302, 0.366, 0.142, 0.000, 0.548, 0.370, 0.000, 0.319, 0.000 };
+    private double[] p2off = { 0.480, 0.769, 0.744, 0.538, 0.575, 0.727, 0.768, 0.589, 0.762, 0.505 };
+
+    /**
+     * Method so that features can initialize themselves based on a short argument string. At the moment, each feature is
+     * responsible for interpreting their own argument string.
+     *
+     * @param arguments the arguments!
+     */
+    public void initialize(String arguments) {
+        if (arguments != null && !arguments.isEmpty()) {
+            String[] argPieces = arguments.split(";");
+            String[] argOnPieces = argPieces[0].split(",");
+            String[] argOffPieces = argPieces[0].split(",");
+
+            for (int genotypeIndex = 0; genotypeIndex < 10; genotypeIndex++) {
+                p2on[genotypeIndex] = Double.valueOf(argOnPieces[genotypeIndex]);
+                p2off[genotypeIndex] = Double.valueOf(argOffPieces[genotypeIndex]);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Method to compute the result of this feature for each of the ten genotypes.  The return value must be a double array
+     * of length 10 (one for each genotype) and the value must be in log10-space.
+     *
+     * @param ref     the reference base
+     * @param context the context for the given locus
+     * @return a ten-element array of log-likelihood result of the feature applied to each genotype
+     */
+    public double[] compute(char ref, LocusContext context) {
+        double[] likelihoods = new double[10];
+
+        ReadBackedPileup pileup = new ReadBackedPileup(ref, context);
+        String primaryBases = pileup.getBases();
+        String secondaryBases = pileup.getSecondaryBasePileup();
+
+        for (int genotypeIndex = 0; genotypeIndex < Genotype.values().length; genotypeIndex++) {
+            char firstAllele = Genotype.values()[genotypeIndex].toString().charAt(0);
+            char secondAllele = Genotype.values()[genotypeIndex].toString().charAt(1);
+
+            int offIsGenotypic = 0;
+            int offTotal = 0;
+
+            int onIsGenotypic = 0;
+            int onTotal = 0;
+
+            for (int pileupIndex = 0; pileupIndex < primaryBases.length(); pileupIndex++) {
+                char primaryBase = primaryBases.charAt(pileupIndex);
+
+                if (secondaryBases != null) {
+                    char secondaryBase = secondaryBases.charAt(pileupIndex);
+
+                    if (primaryBase != firstAllele && primaryBase != secondAllele) {
+                        if (secondaryBase == firstAllele || secondaryBase == secondAllele) {
+                            offIsGenotypic++;
+                        }
+                        offTotal++;
+                    } else {
+                        if (secondaryBase == firstAllele || secondaryBase == secondAllele) {
+                            onIsGenotypic++;
+                        }
+                        onTotal++;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            double offPrior = MathUtils.binomialProbability(offIsGenotypic, offTotal, p2off[genotypeIndex]);
+            double onPrior = MathUtils.binomialProbability(onIsGenotypic, onTotal, p2on[genotypeIndex]);
+
+            likelihoods[genotypeIndex] = Math.log10(offPrior) + Math.log10(onPrior);
+        }
+
+        return likelihoods;
+    }
+}