add gene name from bed file to vcf in vcftools

Question

[bioguy24]

I am trying to add gene information to a vcf file using vcftools:

vcftools annotate \
  -a genes.bed.gz \
  -c CHROM,FROM,TO,GENE \
  -h <(echo '##INFO=<ID=GENE,Number=1,Type=String,Description="Gene name">') \
  TSVC_001.vcf.gz

genes.bed.gz is compressed using bzip, sorted, and indexed by tabix

for f in /home/cmccabe/Desktop/tabix/*.bed ; do
    bname=$(basename $f)
    vcf-sort $f | bgzip -c > $f.gz ; tabix -p bed $f.gz
done

genes.bed.gz

chr1    955543  955763  AGRN
chr1    957571  957852  AGRN
chr1    970621  970740  AGRN

The vcftools command runs but I do not see that the vcf.gz was updated with the gene information from the bed file. At a later time I want to use those gene names to filter the vcf. Thank you .

[venu]

Just for clarification, what is bash for loop doing here? If you have only one bed file, why to use a loop? And why are you using vcf-sort on a bed file? According to manual indexing should be done in some other way. Check this

[bioguy24]

Since I will eventually have multiple bed files I use a loop, but will start with one at a time. Thank you for the link:).