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GATK combine gvcf superslow

Hi,

I am working on a classic variant calling on a non model organism.

I have 250 samples and followed the GATK best practice.

I have produced 250 g.vcf with HaplotypeCaller, now the next step is to combine those g.vcf and produce a .vcf (with GenotypeGVCFs) either:

A) Solution A: using GenomicsDBImport

B) Solution B: using CombineGVCFs

But those methods are super slow.

I am wondering if it is possible to produce one vcf per g.vcf with GenotypeGVCFs (quite fast) and then combine the 250 vcf with an another program ?

Does it produce the same result ? Thanks.

gatk combinegvcfs genomicsdbimport

CatVariants should help with the combine part of your workflow, I think.

I am working on a non model organism, with a genome that have been assembled. Unfortunately, this is quite fragmented. Is is still worth do it ?

if there are 1000 contigs and you can run 1000 CombineGVCFs jobs in parallel, then it will be 1000 times faster..

Hi Pierre. Do you split by chromosome for combineGVCFs or GenomicsDBimport ?

should also work for genomicsDBimport though :)

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