-Switch back to the old implementation, if needed, with --use_legacy_downsampler
-LocusIteratorByStateExperimental becomes the new LocusIteratorByState, and
the original LocusIteratorByState becomes LegacyLocusIteratorByState
-Similarly, the ExperimentalReadShardBalancer becomes the new ReadShardBalancer,
with the old one renamed to LegacyReadShardBalancer
-Performance improvements: locus traversals used to be 20% slower in the new
downsampling implementation, now they are roughly the same speed.
-Tests show a very high level of concordance with UG calls from the previous
implementation, with some new calls and edge cases that still require more examination.
-With the new implementation, can now use -dcov with ReadWalkers to set a limit
on the max # of reads per alignment start position per sample. Appropriate value
for ReadWalker dcov may be in the single digits for some tools, but this too
requires more investigation.
-- Providing this optional argument -maxRuntime (in -maxRuntimeUnits units) causes the GATK to exit gracefully when the max. runtime has been exceeded. By cleanly I mean that the engine simply stops at the next available cycle in the walker as through the end of processing had been reached. This means that all output files are closed properly, etc.
-- Emits an info message that looks like "INFO 10:36:52,723 MicroScheduler - Aborting execution (cleanly) because the runtime has exceeded the requested maximum 10.0000 s". Otherwise there's currently no way to differentiate a truly completed run from a timelimit exceeded run, which may be a useful thing for a future update
-- Resolves GSA-630 / GATK max runtime to deal with bad LSA calling?
-- Added new JIRA entry for Ami to restart chr1 macarthur with this argument set to -maxRuntime 1 -maxRuntimeUnits DAYS to see if we can do all of chr1 in one weekend.
-- Included logic to only add priors for alleles with sufficient evidence to be called polymorphic. If no alleles are poly make sure to add priors of first allele
-- There's been no report of problems with the nano scheduled version of TraverseLoci and TraverseReads, so I'm removing the old versions since they are no longer needed
-- Removing unnecessary intermediate base classes
-- GSA-515 / Nanoscheduler GSA-549 / https://jira.broadinstitute.org/browse/GSA-549
-- Updated StandardCallerArgumentCollection to remove MaxAltAllelesForIndels. Previous argument is deprecated with meaningful doc message for people to use maxAltAlleles
-- All constructores, factory methods, and test builders and their users updated to provide just a single argument
-- Updating MD5s for integration tests that change due to genotyping more alleles
-- Adding more alleles to genotyping results in slight changes in the QUAL value for multi-allelic loci where one or more alleles aren't polymorphic. That's simply due to the way that alternative hypotheses contribute as reference evidence against each true allele. The effect can be large (new qual = old qual / 2 in one case here).
-- If we want more precision in our estimates we could decide (Eric, should we discuss?) to actually separately do a discovery phase in the genotyping, eliminate all variants not considered polymorphic, and then do a final round of calling to get the exact QUAL value for only those that are segregating. This would have the value of having the QUAL stay constant as more alleles are genotyped, at the cost of some code complexity increase and runtime. Might be worth it through
Joel Thibault
Yossi Farjoun
Eric Banks
Ami Levy-Moonshine
David Roazen
Mark DePristo
Khalid Shakir
Ryan Poplin