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  • VCFtools whole genome data zipped

    Hi all!
    New here, introduction: I investigate inbreeding in an endangered species where I have whole genome data of several individuals and variants stored in VCF files.

    I want to keep the file zipped (.vcf.gz) because of used memory etc.
    Let's say I want to filter and keep only the SNPs with '--remove-indels' and using gzvcf, how do I make sure the output is not .vcf but also still compressed .vcf.gz ? And in the mean time nothing is unzipped? Because I get the idea VCFtools unzips everything in the mean time.. If I would use a pipeline and say gzip -c > output_file.vcf.gz this will not work right, because that compresses the output again but I do not want it to be uncompressed in the first place.

    Help?!

    Thanks

  • #2
    You can write the output to stdout and pipe that output directly to gzip to compress the generated result.

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    • #3
      Hi, Thanks for quick response!

      So that means with the pipe I would be doing it correctly? Or redirection operator?
      I am new to all this, so I am not aware what the difference between the two is in terms of storing the whole output first in memory, or doing it line-by-line/saving memory?

      Thanks!

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      • #4
        You use both, a pipe to avoid creating an intermediate file, and then redirect, e.g.
        Code:
        vcftools --gzvcf in.vcf.gz --somemagicparameters --stdout | bgzip > out.vcf.gz
        and afterwords create an index if you need it
        Code:
        tabix -p vcf out.vcf.gz

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        • #5
          Thank you so much! Very helpful

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