[ensembl-dev] invalid vcf output

Reece Hart reece at harts.net
Mon Jul 22 21:27:41 BST 2013


On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Will McLaren <wm2 at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:

> I'm not sure what would be best to do here - I could pick a character to
> swap it to, or perhaps something like "eq" instead?
>
> Do any other VEP users have a preference?
>

I think a standard encoding mechanism is preferable to an ensembl-specific
one. How about url encoding (e.g., %3D)? I think URI::Escape should do it.
Probably also worth noting in the VCF header that CSQ is URI-escaped.

Thanks Will!

-Reece
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