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Warning if not human genome #146

Open AlistairNWard opened 3 years ago

AlistairNWard commented 3 years ago

Users have emailed with problems using bam, only to find out that they are using e.g. bacterial bam files. If we are really requiring users to have human genomes, could we perform a quick check to see if the reference sequences are definitely not human, and then provide an error explaining that they need human genomes?

anderspitman commented 3 years ago

How much better would it be to support nonhuman?

AlistairNWard commented 3 years ago

It would definitely be better. We've discussed it before, but nobody is going to have the time to do it! The person who recently emailed had a c. elegans genome, so not a ridiculous genome to be working on! The bam he shared also only had 2 reads, so really the non-human aspect wasn't the only problem!