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VCF Zarr Specification
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Reserve the parents dimention #18

Open timothymillar opened 5 months ago

timothymillar commented 5 months ago

Should we make parents a reserved dimension name? The size could be specified as "The number of unique parental categories used in the VCF header". So the following header lines would correspond to a dimension size of 3 (['Original', 'Father', 'Mother']).

##PEDIGREE=<ID=TumourSample,Original=GermlineID>
##PEDIGREE=<ID=SomaticNonTumour,Original=GermlineID>
##PEDIGREE=<ID=ChildID,Father=FatherID,Mother=MotherID>

Related to https://github.com/sgkit-dev/sgkit/issues/1013

jeromekelleher commented 5 months ago

Sure, I don't see any harm in reserving it for later use.