-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.
-- 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
-- Previously these core progress metering functions were all in TraversalEngine, and available to subclasses like TraverseLoci via inheritance. The problem here is that the upcoming data threads x cpu threads parallelism requires one master copy of the progress metering shared among all traversals, but multiple instantiations of traverse engines themselves.
-- Because the progress metering code has horrible anyway, I've refactored and vastly cleaned up and simplified all of these capabilities into TraversalProgressMeter class. I've simplified down the classes it uses to work (STILL SOME TODOs in there) so that it doesn't reach into the core GATK engine all the time. It should be possible to write some nice tests for it now. By making it its own class, it can protect itself from multi-threaded access with a single synchronized printProgress function instead of carrying around multiple lock objects as before
-- Cleaned up the start up of the progress meter. It's now handled when the meter is created, so each micro scheduler doesn't have to deal with proper initialization timing any longer
-- Simplified and made clear the interface for shutting down the traversal engines. There's no a shutdown method in TraversalEngine that's called once by the MicroScheduler when the entire traversing in over. Nano traversals now properly shut down (was subtle bug I undercovered here). The printing of on traversal done metering is now handled by MicroScheduler
-- The MicroScheduler holds the single master copy of the progress meter, and doles it out to the TraversalEngines (currently 1 but in future commit there will be N).
-- Added a nice function to GenomeAnalysisEngine that returns the regions we will be processing, either the intervals requested or the whole genome. Useful for progress meter but also probably for other infrastructure as well
-- Remove a lot of the sh*ting Bean interface getting and setting in MicroScheduler that's no longer useful. The generic bean is just a shell interface with nothing in it.
-- By removing a lot of these bean accessors and setters many things are now final that used to be dynamic.
* Did not touch archived walkers... those can be named whatever.
* Kept abstract classes that end in Walker untouched (e.g. LocusWalker, ReadWalker, ...)
* Renamed a few inner classes due to conflict when stripping off Walker from their outer classes: ContigStats, FlagStats and FastaStats.
Joel Thibault
David Roazen
Eric Banks
Mark DePristo
Mauricio Carneiro
Matt Hanna