-- allowMissingVCFHeaders is now part of -U argument. If you want specifically unsafe VCF processing you need -U LENIENT_VCF_PROCESSING. Updated lots of files to use this
-- LENIENT_VCF_PROCESSING disables on the fly VCF header cleanup. This is now implemented via a member variable, not a class variable, which I believe was changing the GATK behavior during integration tests, causing some files to fail that pass when run as a single test because the header reading behavior was changing depending on previous failures.
-- The GATK VCFWriter now enforces by default that all INFO, FILTER, and FORMAT fields be properly defined in the header. This helps avoid some of the low-level errors I saw in SelectVariants. This behavior can be disable in the engine with the --allowMissingVCFHeaders argument
-- Fixed broken annotations in TandemRepeat, which were overwriting AD instead of defining RPA
-- Optimizations to VariantEval, removing some obvious low-hanging fruit all in the subsetting of variants by sample
-- SelectVariants header fixes -- Was defining DP for the info field as a FORMAT field, as for AC, AF, and AN original
-- Performance optimizations in BCF2 codec and writer
-- using arrays not lists for intermediate data structures
-- Create once and reuse an array of GenotypeBuilders for the codec, avoiding reallocating this data structure over and over
-- VCFHeader (which needs a complete rewrite, FYI Eric)
-- Warn and fix on the way flag values with counts > 0
-- GenotypeSampleNames are now stored as a List as they are ordered, and the set iteration was slow. Duplicates are detected once at header creation.
-- Explicitly track FILTER fields for efficient lookup in their own hashmap
-- Automatically add PL field when we see a GL field and no PL field
-- Added get and has methods for INFO, FILTER, and FORMAT fields
-- No longer add AC and AF values to the INFO field when there's no ALT allele
-- Memory efficient comparison of VCF and BCF files for shadow BCF testing. Now there's no (memory) constraint on the size of the files we can compare
-- Because of VCF's limited floating point resolution we can only use 1 sig digit for comparing doubles between BCF and VCF
-- FastGenotypes are the default in the engine. Use --useSlowGenotypes engine argument to return to old representation
-- Cleanup of BCF2Codec. Good error handling. Added contracts and docs.
-- Added a few more contacts and docs to BCF2Decoder
-- Optimized encodePrimitive in BCF2Encoder
-- Removed genotype filter field exceptions
-- Docs and cleanup of BCF2GenotypeFieldDecoders
-- Deleted unused BCF2TestWalker
-- Docs and cleanup of BCF2Types
-- Faster version of decodeInts in VCFCodec
-- BCF2Writer
-- Support for writing a sites only file
-- Lots of TODOs for future optimizations
-- Removed lack of filter field support
-- No longer uses the alleleMap from VCFWriter, which was a Allele -> String, now uses Allele -> Integer which is faster and more natural
-- Lots of docs and contracts
-- Docs for GenotypeBuilder. More filter creation routines (unfiltered, for example)
-- More extensive tests in VariantContextTestProfiler, including variable length strings in genotypes and genotype filters. Better genotype comparisons
-- Created a new Genotype interface with a more limited set of operations
-- Old genotype object is now SlowGenotype. New genotype object is FastGenotype. They can be used interchangable
-- There's no way to create Genotypes directly any longer. You have to use GenotypeBuilder just like VariantContextBuilder
-- Modified lots and lots of code to use GenotypeBuilder
-- Added a temporary hidden argument to engine to use FastGenotype by default. Current default is SlowGenotype
-- Lots of bug fixes to BCF2 codec and encoder.
-- Feature additions
-- Now properly handles BCF2 -> BCF2 without decoding or encoding from scratch the BCF2 genotype bytes
-- Cleaned up semantics of subContextFromSamples. There's one function that either rederives or not the alleles from the subsetted genotypes
-- MASSIVE BUGFIX in SelectVariants. The code has been decoding genotypes always, even if you were not subsetting down samples. Fixed!
* Added parameter -qq to quantize qualities using a recalibration report
* Added options to quantize using the recalibration report quantization levels, new nLevels and no quantization.
* Updated BQSR scripts to make use of the new parameters
-Running the GATK with the -et NO_ET or -et STDOUT options now
requires a key issued by us. Our reasons for doing this, and the
procedure for our users to request keys, are documented here:
http://www.broadinstitute.org/gsa/wiki/index.php/Phone_home
-A GATK user key is an email address plus a cryptographic signature
signed using our private key, all wrapped in a GZIP container.
User keys are validated using the public key we now distribute with
the GATK. Our private key is kept in a secure location.
-Keys are cryptographically secure in that valid keys definitely
came from us and keys cannot be fabricated, however keys are not
"copy-protected" in any way.
-Includes private, standalone utilities to create a new GATK user key
(GenerateGATKUserKey) and to create a new master public/private key
pair (GenerateKeyPair). Usage of these tools will be documented on
the internal wiki shortly.
-Comprehensive unit/integration tests, including tests to ensure the
continued integrity of the GATK master public/private key pair.
-Generation of new user keys and the new unit/integration tests both
require access to the GATK private key, which can only be read by
members of the group "gsagit".
Also includes convenience parameters for specifying the IO/CPU threading balance outside of a tag. Will be killed when
Queue gets better support for tagged arguments (hopefully soon).
-- the underlying data structure is still present, but until I decide what to do for the extensible system I've completely disabled the subsystem
-- Added code to merge Samples, so that a mostly full record can be merged with a consistent empty record. If the two records are inconsistent, an error is thrown
-- addSample() in Sample.class now invokes mergeSample() when appropriate
-- Validation types are now only STRICT or SILENT
-- Validation code implemented in SampleDBBuilder
-- Extensive unit tests for SampleDBBuilder
Joel Thibault
Eric Banks
Mark DePristo
Mauricio Carneiro
David Roazen
Ryan Poplin
Matt Hanna
Khalid Shakir