-- I'm seeing a lot of people trying to use BinaryTagCovariate in the community. They really shouldn't do this, so I moved it to private.
-- Throw an exception if its required bintag argument is missing
-- Check explicitly if user is requesting DinucCovariate and tell them that its been retired in favor of ContextCovariate
-- Show the type (Required, Experimental, Standard) of the covariates when running --list
-- Moved most of BQSR classes (which are used throughout the codebase) to utils.recalibration. It's better in my opinion to keep commonly used code in utils, and only specialized code in walkers. As code becomes embedded throughout GATK its should be refactored to live in utils
-- Removed unncessary imports of BQSR in VQSR v3
-- Now ready to refactor QualQuantizer and unit test into a subclass of RecalDatum, refactor unit tests into RecalDatum unit tests, and generalize into hierarchical recal datum that can be used in QualQuantizer and the analysis of adaptive context covariate
-- Update PluginManager to sort the plugins and interfaces. This allows us to have a deterministic order in which the plugin classes come back, which caused BQSR integration tests to temporarily change because I moved my classes around a bit.
-- Allowed values for RodBinding<T> are displayed in the GATKDocs
-- Longest name up to 30 characters is chosen for main argument list (suggested by Ryan/Mauricio)
-- Features are listed in alphabetical order
-- Moved useful getParameterizedType() function to JVMUtils
-- Tests of these features in the Documentation Test
New class handles (vastly more cleanly) the db of tribble codecs, features, and names for use throughout the GATK.
Added SelfScopingFeatureCodec interface that allows a FeatureCodec to examine a file and determine if the file can be parsed. This is the first step towards allowing the GATK to dynamically determine the type of a RodBinding.
Mark DePristo
Eric Banks
Khalid Shakir
David Roazen