I have a number of VCF files, where each VCF file possesses variant data for a single patient (this is the way Illumina provides their data). Is it possible to combine all of the data for the patients into one VCF file? If so, how? Can I use plink/seq to do this?!
Any suggestions and leads would be extremely helpful.
duplicate of How can I merge a large amount of VCF files?
use vcff-tools merge
Another option is joinx:
joinx vcf-merge [OPTIONS] file1.vcf file2.vcf [file3.vcf ...]
Hi Malachi,
How will joinx behave when score annotation is absent for reference calls? I have a rather large bunch of VCF files with calls for all positions (gVCF?) but the annotation is different between positions with and without a call GT:DP versus GT:AD:DP:GQ:PL
I tried with the lastest version of bcftools and it seems to merge / report multiple lines randomly.
Will joinx use the snp DP as GT DP for ref calls?
thanks!
Jack
You can load multiple VCF to one plink/seq project, then output the project as one VCF.
pseq /path/to/project load-vcf
Given a project file has been created (/path/to/project) and contains 1 or more VCF files, this command loads these VCF files into the variant-database.
Thanks! This is helpful! I'm having trouble loading the vcfs in to a project... these are my commands and output. Can you provide any help?
MY COMMANDS: pseq testproject new-project --resources hg18 pseq /path/to/project/testproject load-vcf --vcf /path/to/TestVCFs/*.vcf
OUTPUT: pseq error : database (/ifs/adni/pbhatt/ADNI/testproject_out/vardb) error (5) database is locked plinkseq warning: database is locked (repeated 6 times) plinkseq warning: preparing query database is locked
PLINK/SEQ documentation is not well maintained, it took me several hours of trial and errors to load the data. Try creating new project with resources and scratch folders defined, and ensure you have Read/Write access to those folders. pseq proj1 new-project --resources /share/data/hg19 --scratch /tmp/myfolder . Try loading 1 VCF file, if works then expand on your solution. There is GoogleGroups for pseq users.
Thanks! Yes I've tried posting in the GoogleGroups but have received more responses here. I agree about the PLINK/SEQ documentation - it's very difficult to understand when you're new to the software.
I loaded one vcf and it works fine - the problem is when i try to load more than one vcf together it seems...I will also try creating a new project with a scratch folder as well. Just so I know, what is the purpose of a scratch folder? - I couldn't find it on the Plink/Seq website.