Out of curiosity, why does Picard's IndexedFastaSequenceFile allow one to query for start position 0? When doing so, that base is a line feed (-1 offset to the first base in the contig) which is an illegal base (and which caused me no end of trouble)...
This way walkers won't see anything except the standard bases plus Ns in the reference.
Added option to turn off this feature (to maintain backwards compatibility).
As part of this commit I cleaned up the BaseUtils code by adding a Base enum and removing all of the static indexes for
each of the bases. This uncovered a bug in the way the DepthOfCoverage walker counts deletions (it was counting Ns instead!) that isn't covered by tests. Fortunately that walker is being deprecated soon...
-- As one might expect, CachingIndexedFastaSequenceFile now internally upper cases the FASTA reference bases. This is now done by default, unless requested explicitly to preserve the original bases.
-- This is really the correct place to do this for a variety of reasons. First, you don't need to work about upper casing bases throughout the code. Second, the cache is only upper cased once, no matter how often the bases are accessed, which walkers cannot optimize themselves. Finally, this uses the fastest function for this -- Picard's toUpperCase(byte[]) which is way better than String.toUpperCase()
-- Added unit tests to ensure this functionality works correct.
-- Removing unnecessary upper casing of bases in some core GATK tools, now that RefContext guarentees that the reference bases are all upper case.
-- Added contracts to ensure this is the case.
-- Remove a ton of sh*t from BaseUtils that was so old I had no idea what it was doing any longer, and didn't have any unit tests to ensure it was correct, and wasn't used anywhere in our code
-- Disturbingly, fixing this bug doesn't actually cause an test failures.
-- Wrote a new QCRefWalker to actually check in detail that the reference bases coming into the RefWalker are all correct when comparing against a clean uncached load of the contig bases directly.
-- However, I cannot run this tool due to some kind of weird BAM error -- sending this on to Matt
non-static to avoid problems when multiple references are used within the same
thread (eg., during integration tests). This should kill the intermittent
IndelRealignerIntegrationTest failures.
David Roazen
Eric Banks
Mauricio Carneiro
Mark DePristo