Why do you have to provide -I and -L if GENOTYPE_GIVEN_ALLELES is used: UnifiedGenotyper

hintzen

Previously I have been running a command like this:

  java -jar /path/GenomeAnalysisTK.jar \ 

  -T UnifiedGenotyper \

  -R /path/human_g1k_v37.fasta \

  -et NO_ET \

  -K /path/key \

  -out_mode EMIT_ALL_SITES \

  --input_file /path/bam \

  -L /path/intervals \

  -gt_mode GENOTYPE_GIVEN_ALLELES \

  --alleles /path/vcf \

  --dbsnp /path/dbsnp_135.b37.vcf \

  -o /path/my.vcf

But I was reading the documentation again and I read this statement: GENOTYPE_GIVEN_ALLELES only the alleles passed in from a VCF rod bound to the -alleles argument will be used for genotyping

Which lead me to believe that there wasn't a need to include the lines: --input_file /path/bam \ -L /path/intervals \

because it would be redundant. But when I try to run without those line I get back an error message: Walker requires reads but none were provided.

Can you give an explaination as to why both of those lines AND GENOTYPE_GIVEN_ALLELES would be needed?

Geraldine_VdAuwera

@hintzen, what exactly do you want the program to genotype if not sequence reads?

hintzen

@Geraldine_VdAuwera I am not sure I understand. I want to sequence reads but doesn't giving GENOTYPE_GIVEN_ALLELES do the same job as -I -L ?

Geraldine_VdAuwera

No, GENOTYPE_GIVEN_ALLELES just tells the UG "don't look at all possible alleles, just look at the alleles in this VCF and tell me which of those my samples have".

You still need to input the sample bamfiles that you want the program to genotype (using -I) and you can still restrict the analysis to a subset of intervals (using -L).