1000 Genome Project VCF file and Plink file

Question

[Shicheng Guo]

I notice the lastest version is :

ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/release/20130502/

No any update after 2013? What happened?

Thanks.

Answer 1

[chrchang523]

While the project continued for a few years past May 2013, they froze their official variant calls at that point.

If you're performing an analysis that just requires subpopulation minor allele frequencies and/or similar summary statistics, gnomAD is probably more useful now. But yes, if you're looking for a bunch of uniformly-quality-controlled public whole genomes, the best resource is almost 5 years old...

[Shicheng Guo]

Okay. Then what are they busying now? change to other field?

[WouterDeCoster]

Probably ran out of funding :)

[Shicheng Guo]

Yeah. I know, but they have some some other fundings right? they are famous don't worry no money..

[Shicheng Guo]

Hi Chang, Is there big problem if I use UCSC liftOver to change .map files from hg18 to hg19?