Why dash symbol is not allowed in sample names?

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create a gemini-compatible database from a VCF

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Why dash symbol is not allowed in sample names? #52

Open naumenko-sa opened 5 years ago

naumenko-sa commented 5 years ago

Hi Brent!

Thanks for creating vcf2db - it is super helpful!

fix_sample_name substitutes X-Y in the sample name to X_Y.

Why it is not possible to have "-" in the sample name? It breaks some downstream scripts when sample name in a vcf file is with "-" and in the database it is without "-".

Is there any workaround to keep the sample name exactly as in the vcf file?

Sergey

nswh commented 4 years ago

Same question! Can we just comment out this part of script?