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User should be able to know which reference genome was used in a VCF file

Open jaclynperrone opened this issue 9 years ago • 3 comments

Is there a way to state what version of the reference genome a VCF file is using to make its comparison? Two questions:

  1. Does this meta data exist in a VCF?
  2. Is this something that Guacamole can surface when it generates a VCF?

(cc: @arahuja )

jaclynperrone avatar Jun 01 '15 20:06 jaclynperrone

We previously had a field on runs that tracked the reference genome used; I took it out for now as

  1. it wasn't being used;
  2. the VCF should have a field (##reference=file:///seq/references/1000GenomesPilot-NCBI36.fasta e.g., from the 4.2 VCF spec) tracking the reference. We should surface it, though, and do not currently!

ihodes avatar Jun 01 '15 20:06 ihodes

Yes, let's surface it!

jaclynperrone avatar Jun 01 '15 20:06 jaclynperrone

Once #820 is merged, we can easily start showing the release field on the examine page.

armish avatar Aug 29 '15 01:08 armish