Hello, I have a multi-sample VCF file, with about 4000 contigs/loci represented. Many of these contigs contain multiple SNPs, meaning the SNPs are linked to one another in this case. However, some of my downstream analyses do not handle linked markers well, so I would like to be able to filter my VCF file so that I am left with a single SNP per contig. If there were a way to randomly select one SNP per contig, that would be great. Any ideas about how to achieve this? As far as I can tell, VCFtools does not allow this.
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vcftools does have a --thin option, and if you set it to the maximum contig size then there will be only 1 SNP per contig (--thin 100000, for example).
It may select the first SNP in the contig, though.Providing nextRAD genotyping and PacBio sequencing services. http://snpsaurus.com -
Great, thanks SNPsaurus, this is working nicely. I would still like to do a 'random SNP per locus' option, and compare results to what I'm getting with this 'first SNP per locus' method, but this might require some more advanced programming skills.Comment
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