[ensembl-dev] Writing VCF header lines in plugins

Konrad Karczewski konradk at broadinstitute.org
Wed May 28 22:37:18 BST 2014


Hi everyone,

I noticed we can use get_header_info to write into the VEP header, but when this writes to VCF, it simply puts the key into the pipe-delimited list. Is there any way a plugin can put more info into the VCF header? Particularly, I was wondering if it'd be possible to write a separate line with plugin (and VEP) version info.

Actually, regardless and slightly related, VEP version info (and command-line parameters) would be a useful thing to write into the VCF, a la Picard/GATK. Would help in reproducibility (especially as GRCh38 comes along).

-Konrad

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