Can not get bcftools norm to join biallelics into a multiallelic.
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is this the right way to use bcftools to join/merge biallelic records into a multiallelic? If so, it is not working. No errors but it gives me the same file with my command added to the headers.

# Example with multiallelic:

cat test20.vcf 
##fileformat=VCFv4.2
##FORMAT=<ID=GT,Number=1,Type=String,Description="Genotype">
##contig=<ID=chr7>
#CHROM  POS ID  REF ALT QUAL    FILTER  INFO    FORMAT  SAMPLE1
chr7    117559591   Indel   TCTT    T,TTCT  .   .   .   GT  0/0

# Splitting works OK

###fileformat=VCFv4.2
##FILTER=<ID=PASS,Description="All filters passed">
##FORMAT=<ID=GT,Number=1,Type=String,Description="Genotype">
##contig=<ID=chr7>
##bcftools_normVersion=1.17+htslib-1.17
##bcftools_normCommand=norm -m-any -f ../hg38/hg38.fa test20.vcf; Date=Sat Mar 11 15:36:30 2023
#CHROM  POS ID  REF ALT QUAL    FILTER  INFO    FORMAT  SAMPLE1
chr7    117559590   Indel   ATCT    A   .   .   .   GT  0/0
chr7    117559592   Indel   CT  TC  .   .   .   GT  0/0
Lines   total/split/realigned/skipped:  1/1/2/0

# Splitting and joining but joining does not work.  Why?

bcftools norm -m-any   -f ../hg38/hg38.fa  test20.vcf |  bcftools norm -m+any   -f ../hg38/hg38.fa 
Lines   total/split/realigned/skipped:  1/1/2/0
##fileformat=VCFv4.2
##FILTER=<ID=PASS,Description="All filters passed">
##FORMAT=<ID=GT,Number=1,Type=String,Description="Genotype">
##contig=<ID=chr7>
##bcftools_normVersion=1.17+htslib-1.17
##bcftools_normCommand=norm -m-any -f ../hg38/hg38.fa test20.vcf; Date=Sat Mar 11 15:37:29 2023
##bcftools_normCommand=norm -m+any -f ../hg38/hg38.fa; Date=Sat Mar 11 15:37:29 2023
#CHROM  POS ID  REF ALT QUAL    FILTER  INFO    FORMAT  SAMPLE1
chr7    117559590   Indel   ATCT    A   .   .   .   GT  0/0
chr7    117559592   Indel   CT  TC  .   .   .   GT  0/0
Lines   total/split/realigned/skipped:  2/0/0/0

The above command correctly splits my multiallelic record into 2 biallelic recordfs and then it should join them into a single multiallelic record but it does not. Am I doing something wrong or is there a bug?

Thanks.

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It's hard to troubleshoot for you without one clear unedited copy of the input VCF specified within a single code block. From your post, I couldn't tell what the input file comprises. However, I made a toy vcf like so based on your first example:

##fileformat=VCFv4.2
##FILTER=<ID=PASS,Description="All filters passed">
##fileDate=20230131
##FORMAT=<ID=GT,Number=1,Type=String,Description="Genotype">
##contig=<ID=chr7>
##INFO=<ID=TYPE,Number=.,Type=String,Description="Variant type">
#CHROM  POS ID  REF ALT QUAL    FILTER  INFO    FORMAT  test
chr7    117559591   Indel   TCTT    T,TTCT  .   .   .   GT  0/0

I can split it like so with bcftools norm -m-any test.vcf:

##fileformat=VCFv4.2
##FILTER=<ID=PASS,Description="All filters passed">
##fileDate=20230131
##FORMAT=<ID=GT,Number=1,Type=String,Description="Genotype">
##contig=<ID=chr7>
##INFO=<ID=TYPE,Number=.,Type=String,Description="Variant type">
##bcftools_normVersion=1.15.1+htslib-1.15.1
##bcftools_normCommand=norm -m-any test.vcf; Date=Mon Mar 13 11:45:40 2023
#CHROM  POS ID  REF ALT QUAL    FILTER  INFO    FORMAT  test
chr7    117559591   Indel   TCTT    T   .   .   .   GT  0/0
chr7    117559591   Indel   TCTT    TTCT    .   .   .   GT  0/0

And I can join the output back again with bcftools norm -m+any:

##fileformat=VCFv4.2
##FILTER=<ID=PASS,Description="All filters passed">
##fileDate=20230131
##FORMAT=<ID=GT,Number=1,Type=String,Description="Genotype">
##contig=<ID=chr7>
##INFO=<ID=TYPE,Number=.,Type=String,Description="Variant type">
##bcftools_normVersion=1.15.1+htslib-1.15.1
##bcftools_normCommand=norm -m-any test.vcf; Date=Mon Mar 13 11:46:18 2023
##bcftools_normCommand=norm -m+any; Date=Mon Mar 13 11:46:18 2023
#CHROM  POS ID  REF ALT QUAL    FILTER  INFO    FORMAT  test
chr7    117559591   Indel   TCTT    T,TTCT  .   .   .   GT  0/0

Version details:

bcftools 1.15.1 Using htslib 1.15.1

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Thanks for the response and troubleshooting, cfos4698. In my initial split, I used -f hg38.fa so there is normalization going on. It is not the same as what you did.

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