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Thank you for your patience!
Known sites for indel realignment and BQSR in hg38 bundle

Dear GATK team,
I'd like to learn what files I should use for indel realignment and BQSR from hg38 bundle? (I read the manual on this topic -- https://broadinstitute.org/gatk/guide/article?id=1247 -- but just would like to be sure):
1) Am I right that for indel realignment I should use Mills_and_1000G_gold_standard.indels.hg38.vcf and 1000G_phase1.snps.high_confidence.hg38.vcf.gz ?
2) Am I right that for BQSR I should use Mills_and_1000G_gold_standard.indels.hg38.vcf , 1000G_phase1.snps.high_confidence.hg38.vcf.gz , and dbsnp_144.hg38.vcf ?
3) Are there any other files with known sites I should use for indel realignment and BQSR?
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@SvyatoslavSidorov
Hello,
You are correct about what to use!
-Sheila
Dear Sheila, thank you for your quick reply!
Dear Sheila and Svyatoslav,
I have a doubt here, Svyatoslav is looking for indel realignment. As per his question, he mentioned that to use following vcf files
1) Mills_and_1000G_gold_standard.indels.hg38.vcf
2) 1000G_phase1.snps.high_confidence.hg38.vcf
But the 2nd file is not for indels. It looks like it has 1000G_phase1 high confidence SNPS. Am I missing some thing here?
Thanks in advance.
@Nanda
Hi,
I think there is some confusion with the naming, and we also need to update the article to refer to hg38 resources. The 1000G_phase1.snps.high_confidence.hg38.vcf will also contain some indels that are useful for Indel Realignment.
Please also note, it is no longer necessary to run Indel Realignment step. Have a look at this blog post.
-Sheila
I am trying to perform base recalibration on Star 2pass aligned bam files which I want to use for variant calling. I am using ucsc hg19 reference. For known sites for hg19, I got the dbsnp, 1000G and mills vcfs from GATK bundle.
When I try to use these vcfs as input for known sites in the Base recalibration step, I get contig order mismatch with reference genome error. I have tried to re-download the vcf, perform liftover using CrossMap and ucsc liftover tool. I also tried to sort the vcf and remove the index after sorting (as recommended in various threads related to contig order mismatch) but nothing is working.
If I carry on without the base recalibration step, I still do get the vcfs from haplotype caller so everything in the pipeline seems to be fine except the base recalibration step.
I also tried to use GRCh38 reference but I got the same issue with contig mismatch for dbsnp vcf and reference during base recalibration step.
Could you please help me? Am I doing something wrong?
Hi @oss10
Please post the exact command you are using, the version of gatk and the entire error log.
Hi @Sheila, maybe meanwhile something changed somewhere in the documentation, but at the moment in the 1000G_phase1.snps.high_confidence.hg38.vcf file there aren't indels (checked with vcftools keeping only indels).
Hi @andresguarahino, Sheila's post is a bit old.
Try looking for what you need in here. Can you clarify what you are trying to do so that I can be more helpful?
@Tiffany_at_Broad, I wrote the post for the other users, I don't have any question about it, thank you!