Hannes Hauswedell
Hannes Hauswedell
I second this. The specification of (partly) empty vectors is really inprecise. See also #593.
Thank you for your reply! > The IDX feature that allows to drop tags from the header was added only later and the specification reflects this non-ideal situation. I agree...
> So I assume the implementation is basically a hash table insertion with auto-increment if not found, using two hashes (one for contigs and one for everything else). If this...
> The specs do not explicitly state that commas must be used as delimiters. But the spec states: ``` Each subfield consists of a short key with optional values in...
> State that character fields must not include comma separators. Compatible with htslib. Yeah, at this point, I think the only viable option is just standardise what htslib is doing....
> I thought from reading this post the problem was that in VCF it's A,B while in BCF it's AB, but it's not: That's what I have been trying to...
> The VCF specification allows to drop sample's trailing FORMAT fields (case 2), but it also allows to use a single MISSING_VALUE as an abbreviated way of expressing how many...
Ok, I don't want to drag this on longer than necessary. Since all of these representations in the file are equivalent in what they represent, it might not make a...
:+1: for compatibility with bgzip!
Thanks for alerting us to this problem! lambda3 is still very much in development, but of course we plan to have these features working again!