Could Gender support and VCF output be added?

[bartcharbon]

Dear @readmanchiu,

We are using Straglr in our pipeline (https://github.com/molgenis/vip/) to call STR's on nanopore data. Since all the modules in our pipeline are build to have VCF input and VCF output we ended up using the fork from @philres. We also know the sex of our samples and this fork seems to have added value in that regard.

However, we also would like to offer the genome scan function to our users (currently we only support the genotyping with a loci bed file), and I cannot get that to work with installing the python egg from this fork. (but using the original repo leaves me without VCF output) Furthermore it seems to be some commits behind the main branch of this original repo.

So we are looking for the best of both worlds (forks), and my questions are: Would you consider adding the VCF format as output in the future Would you consider adding the sample sex as an input parameter and use it in the STR calling on the X chromosome?