Closed chrisamiller closed 5 years ago
To be clear, looking at these two lines:
chr1 770501 . C . 24 PASS NS=1;CX=CG;N5=CACGT GT:GL1:GQ:DP:SP:CV:BT 0/0:-1,-7,-39:24:8:C7Y1:4:0.75
chr1 770502 . G . 24 PASS NS=1;CX=CG;N5=AACGT GT:GL1:GQ:DP:SP:CV:BT 0/0:-1,-7,-39:24:8:G6R2:4:0.50
I get a bed output of:
chr1 770500 770501 0.750 4
chr1 770501 770502 0.500 4
When what would be often be more useful is just one entry for the whole CpG:
chr1 770500 770501 0.625 8
Hi @chrisamiller, Sorry for the tardy response. In the original version, vcf2bed indeed merge complementary cytosines for each cpgs. In the late version, this functionality is separated to the mergecg subcommand to allow more flexibility. I think this is better because sometimes, I got cytosine count from other sources and I wished to use mergecg standalone. Now you just need to pipe the output of vcf2bed to mergecg. Let me know if this sounds reasonable to people. Thanks!
oh man - I missed that new command completely. Yeah, that solves the problem - thanks!
While it's nice to have per-strand readout in some contexts, most CpGs are methylated symmetrically. As a result, having separate lines for the forward and reverse contexts makes it a pain to extract overall methylation status for each CpG site.
Would it be possible to modify vcf2bed to support collapsing the strands into a single position, depth, and beta value for each CpG?