Greetings,
I am playing around with two vcf files I generated with GATKv3.7. Both were generated with the parameters -G Standard -G AS_Standard, but one was generated in GGA mode from the sites of the other. That GGA vcf has some AS_Standard values missing.
##INFO=<ID=AS_MQ,Number=A,Type=Float,Description="Allele-specific RMS Mapping Quality">
But for some nonspecific number of variants they are annotated AS_MQ; with no float given. I noticed this from an attempted merge of their shared variants using bcftools.
Not ready for type [0]: AS_MQ at 12133603 was the exact error.
I was able to merge after sed replacing any value or AS_MQ; with AS_MQ=.; but I was wondering if there was any tool/command that could have done this for me and for any potentially wrong/missing value in a vcf format aware manner? I can build in a manual check for that AS_MQ fix, but I am trying to "fool proof" it in case it ever happens in another annotation.
Thank you!
GATK has a history of producing VCFs that are incompatible with other tools. Could you perhaps paste the VCF header and a few offending and non-offending lines so that we could try it at our end? When you paste it, highlight and wrap it with the
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