bigdatagenomics / bdg-formats

Open source formats for scalable genomic processing systems using Avro. Apache 2 licensed.
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Floats for genotype likelihoods can underflow #144

Closed fnothaft closed 7 years ago

fnothaft commented 7 years ago

When converting high phred scaled values (e.g., Phred 1000) to log probabilities, we can underflow the precision of a float and should use a double instead.