for anything that needs to be simultaneously aware of multiple references, eg
Queue's interval sharding code, liftover support, distributed GATK etc.
GenomeLocParser instances must now be used to create/parse GenomeLocs.
GenomeLocParser instances are available in walkers by calling either
-getToolkit().getGenomeLocParser()
or
-refContext.getGenomeLocParser()
This is an intermediate change; GenomeLocParser will eventually be merged
with the reference, but we're not clear exactly how to do that yet. This
will become clearer when contig aliasing is implemented.
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a caveat: for anyone asking for all of the ROD's back from the RefMetaDataTracker (if your not using the facilities to get the track by name), you'll now be getting back a collection of GATKFeature objects. This object will contain the track name, and a method for getting the underlying object (getUnderlyingObject()), which will be the traditional RodVCF, rodDbSNP, etc. This layer is needed so we can integrate Tribble tracks (which don't natively have names). Calls that ask for RODs by name will still get back the traditional reference ordered data objects (RodVCF, rodDbSNP, etc).
Sorry for the inconvenience! More changes to come, but this is by far the largest (as has the greatest effect on end users).
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aaron
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