We have finished downloading the massive Simons Diversity Project dataset after a year's effort. It consists of one VCF per chromosome for 260 samples. Each VCF includes one line per nucleotide position. Thus, reference calls and no-calls are explicitly reported.

It appears to me that indels are not described in these VCFs. Are they described in other files, or are they just not reported?.

Below I illustrate with a deletion that is present in the pilot release of 25 genomes, but is absent in the VCF we just downloaded for the same sample.

Insertion 10:118916-118915 is seen in sample HGDP01284 in the VCF for the pilot project (to avoid visual clutter, only first 7 fields shown):

tabix HGDP01284.hg19_1000g.10.mod.vcf.gz 10:118915-118919
10 118915       .       A       .       78.14   .
10 118915       .       A       AG      299.55  .
10 118916       .       G       .       78.15   .
10 118917       .       G       .       75.13   .
10 118918       .       G       .       78.11   .
10 118919       .       A       G       8.07    LowQual

Here is the same region for the same sample in the VCF provided with the full dataset. I do not see anything to suggest an insertion at 118915:

zcat HGDP01284.10.filtered.vcf.gz | grep -A4 -m1 118915
10 118915       .       A       .       38.99   .       AN=2;BaseCounts=14,0,0,0;DP=14;GC=35.66;MQ=34.80;MQ0=1;FL=-1    GT:DP   0/0:14
10 118916       .       G       .       38.99   .       AN=2;BaseCounts=0,0,14,0;DP=14;GC=35.66;MQ=34.80;MQ0=1;FL=-1    GT:DP   0/0:14
10 118917       .       G       .       35.99   .       AN=2;BaseCounts=0,0,14,0;DP=14;GC=35.66;MQ=34.80;MQ0=1;FL=-1    GT:DP   0/0:14
10 118918       .       G       .       38.99   .       AN=2;BaseCounts=0,0,15,0;DP=15;GC=35.41;MQ=34.95;MQ0=1;FL=-1    GT:DP   0/0:15
10 118919       rs201347354     A       G       41.01   .       AC=1;AF=0.500;AN=2;BaseCounts=11,0,3,0;BaseQRankSum=0.623;DB;DP=15;Dels=0.07;FS=0.000;GC=35.16;HaplotypeScore=7.9923;MLEAC=1;MLEAF=0.500;MQ=34.95;MQ0=1;MQRankSum=-0.934;QD=2.73;ReadPosRankSum=0.311;FL=-1      GT:AD:DP:GQ:PL  0/1:11,3:14:41:41,0,348

Many thanks for any help.