Getting a Large VCF File output on Variant call

saketkc

HI

I am using the following set of commands on GATK2.1.13 to generate a VCF file

echo `java -Xmx20g -jar /usr/bin/GenomeAnalysisTK.jar -I B2_with_ReadGroup.ddup.sorted.bam -R human_g1k_v37.fasta -T RealignerTargetCreator  -o my.intervals -et NO_ET -K /root/sandbox/saket.kumar_iitb.ac.in.key`
echo "Realignment Done at `date`"
echo "Starting IndelRealigner at `date`"

echo `java -Xmx20g -jar /usr/bin/GenomeAnalysisTK.jar -I B2_with_ReadGroup.ddup.sorted.bam -R human_g1k_v37.fasta -T IndelRealigner -targetIntervals my.intervals -o myrealignedBam.bam  -et NO_ET -K /root/sandbox/saket.kumar_iitb.ac.in.key`
echo "Realignment done at `date`"
echo "Starting UnifiedGenotyper at `date`"
echo `java -Xmx20g -jar /usr/bin/GenomeAnalysisTK.jar -l INFO -R human_g1k_v37.fasta -T UnifiedGenotyper    -I myrealignedBam.bam    -o mygatk_vcf.vcf    --output_mode EMIT_ALL_SITES -et NO_ET -K /root/sandbox/saket.kumar_iitb.ac.in.key`
echo "Gentoypxing complete at `date`"

When i do a 'mpileup' for B2_with_ReadGroup.ddup.sorted.bam , I get a devcent 10 MB VCF file. But on the last ste of the above pipeline, my " mygatk_vcf.vcf " is goinging into 81GBs !!

Do you know what is wrong ?

ebanks

You are asking the Unified Genotyper to do something very different from mpileup, so it's no surprise that they don't match up. Have you looked at our best practices documentation, because I would note that you aren't following them. Have you looked at the documentation for EMIT_ALL_SITES?