From d6fb19bb6744e8b618d358f58d7aa551abeb257c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ebanks <ebanks@348d0f76-0448-11de-a6fe-93d51630548a>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 17:21:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Don't hard-code base qual max

git-svn-id: file:///humgen/gsa-scr1/gsa-engineering/svn_contents/trunk@2524 348d0f76-0448-11de-a6fe-93d51630548a
---
 java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/QualityUtils.java | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/QualityUtils.java b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/QualityUtils.java
index 1b5620301..76fa1b104 100755
--- a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/QualityUtils.java
+++ b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/QualityUtils.java
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ public class QualityUtils {
     }
     
     /**
-     * Return a quality score, capped at 63.
+     * Return a quality score, capped at max qual.
      *
      * @param qual  the uncapped quality score
      * @return the capped quality score
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ public class QualityUtils {
      * @return Printable ASCII representation of phred score.
      */
     public static char phredToFastq(final int phredScore) {
-        if (phredScore < 0 || phredScore > 63) {
+        if (phredScore < 0 || phredScore > MAX_QUAL_SCORE) {
             throw new IllegalArgumentException("Cannot encode phred score: " + phredScore);
         }
         return (char) (33 + phredScore);