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+package org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.walkers.coverage;
+
+
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.commandline.Argument;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.commandline.ArgumentCollection;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.commandline.Output;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.arguments.StandardVariantContextInputArgumentCollection;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.contexts.AlignmentContext;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.contexts.ReferenceContext;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.refdata.RefMetaDataTracker;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.walkers.*;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.GenomeLoc;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.collections.Pair;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.exceptions.UserException;
+import org.broadinstitute.variant.variantcontext.Genotype;
+import org.broadinstitute.variant.variantcontext.GenotypesContext;
+import org.broadinstitute.variant.variantcontext.VariantContext;
+
+
+import java.io.*;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * print intervals file with all the variant sites that have "most" ( >= 90% by default) of the samples with "good" (>= 10 by default)coverage ("most" and "good" can be set in the command line).
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * CoveredByNSamplesSites is a GATK tool for filter out sites based on their coverage.
+ * The sites that pass the filter are printed out to an intervals file.
+ *
+ * <h2>Input</h2>
+ * <p>
+ * A variant file and optionally min coverage and sample percentage values.
+ * </p>
+ *
+ * <h2>Output</h2>
+ * <p>
+ * An intervals file.
+ * </p>
+ *
+ * <h2>Examples</h2>
+ * <pre>
+ * java -Xmx2g -jar GenomeAnalysisTK.jar \
+ *   -R ref.fasta \
+ *   -T CoveredByNSamplesSites \
+ *   -V input.vcf \
+ *   -out output.intervals \
+ *   -minCov 15
+ * </pre>
+ *
+ */
+
+@By(DataSource.REFERENCE_ORDERED_DATA)
+public class CoveredByNSamplesSites extends RodWalker<Pair<Integer,Integer>, Pair<Integer,Integer>> implements TreeReducible<Pair<Integer,Integer>> {
+
+    @Output(fullName = "OutputIntervals", shortName = "out", doc = "Name of file for output intervals", required = true)
+    File intervalsFile;
+
+    @ArgumentCollection
+    protected StandardVariantContextInputArgumentCollection variantCollection = new StandardVariantContextInputArgumentCollection();
+
+    @Argument(fullName = "minCoverage", shortName = "minCov",doc = "only samples that have covarage bigger then minCoverage will be counted",required = false)
+    int minCoverage = 10;
+
+    @Argument(fullName = "precentageOfSamples", shortName = "percentage", doc = "only sites where at list percentageOfSamples of the samples have good coverage, will be emited", required = false)
+    double percentageOfSamples = 0.9;
+
+    private FileOutputStream outputStream;
+
+    @Override
+    public void initialize(){
+        if (! intervalsFile.getName().endsWith(".intervals")){
+            throw new UserException(String.format("Output interval file %s should be <name>.intervals", intervalsFile));
+        }
+        try{
+            outputStream = new FileOutputStream(intervalsFile);
+            if (!intervalsFile.exists()) {
+                intervalsFile.createNewFile();
+            }
+        }
+        catch (IOException e){
+            System.err.println(String.format("Problems with creating outputStream from %s",intervalsFile));
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Pair<Integer,Integer> map(RefMetaDataTracker tracker, ReferenceContext ref, AlignmentContext context) {
+        if ( tracker == null )
+            return new Pair<Integer, Integer>(0,0);
+
+        Collection<VariantContext> VCs = tracker.getValues(variantCollection.variants, context.getLocation());
+        if ( VCs.size() == 0 )
+            return new Pair<Integer, Integer>(0,0);
+        if(VCs.size() != 1)
+            throw new RuntimeException("there are more then one vc: "+VCs.size());
+
+        boolean emitSite = false;
+        List<GenomeLoc> outputIntervals = new ArrayList<GenomeLoc>();
+        for(VariantContext vc : VCs){
+            int coveredSamples = 0;
+            final GenotypesContext genotypes = vc.getGenotypes();
+            final int numOfGenotypes = genotypes.size();
+            for(Genotype g : genotypes){
+                if(g.getDP() >= minCoverage)
+                    coveredSamples++;
+            }
+            if((double)coveredSamples/numOfGenotypes > percentageOfSamples){
+                emitSite = true;
+                outputIntervals.add(ref.getLocus());
+                //System.out.println(ref.getLocus());
+                try{
+                    String toPrint = ref.getLocus().toString() + "\n";
+                    outputStream.write(toPrint.getBytes());
+                }catch (IOException e){
+                    e.printStackTrace();
+                }
+            }
+
+        }
+        if (emitSite)
+            return new Pair<Integer, Integer>(1,1);
+        else
+            return new Pair<Integer, Integer>(1,0);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Pair<Integer,Integer> reduceInit() { return new Pair<Integer, Integer>(0,0); }
+
+    @Override
+    public Pair<Integer,Integer> reduce(Pair<Integer,Integer> value, Pair<Integer,Integer> sum) { return new Pair<Integer, Integer>(value.getFirst() + sum.getFirst(),value.getSecond()+sum.getSecond()); }
+
+    @Override
+    public Pair<Integer,Integer> treeReduce(Pair<Integer,Integer> lhs, Pair<Integer,Integer> rhs) {
+        return new Pair<Integer, Integer>(lhs.getFirst() + rhs.getFirst(),lhs.getSecond() + rhs.getSecond());
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Tell the user the number of sites processed and how many passed. Close out the new intervals file.
+     *
+     * @param result  pair of the number of sites seen and number of sites passed the filter.
+     */
+    public void onTraversalDone(Pair<Integer,Integer> result) {
+        logger.info("Processed " + result.getFirst() + " variant sites and found "+ result.getSecond()+" sites that have "+(percentageOfSamples*100)+"% of the samples with at list "+minCoverage+" coverage.\n");
+        logger.info("All these sites were printed to the intervals file: "+intervalsFile.getAbsolutePath());
+        try{
+            outputStream.close();
+        }
+        catch (IOException e){
+            System.err.println("Couldn't close output steam properly");
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
+    }
+
+
+
+}