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Add Dp Tag To Genotype Field Of Vcf File

Hello everyone,

I am using samtools mpileup for SNP calling, then with BEAGLE I do the haplotyping and with GATK BeagleOutputToVCF I convert the beagle output back to vcf format. Everything is working fine, but I miss one tag.

I want to add the DP tag to the genotype field of the vcf file. Is there an option in samtools mpileup, BEAGLE or GATK BeagleOutputToVCF which can add this information? Do I have to use the tool mentioned in incorporating raw read coverage per sample in merged vcf which requires much IO for calculation and is an extra step in my pipeline? Or is this information somewhere in my vcf file? My vcf file looks like this:

SL2.40ch12      17      .       T       C       69.50   .       AC=1;AC1=1;AF=0.167;AF1=0.1766;AN=6;DP=39;DP4=10,7,2,3;FQ=70.3;MQ=46;NumGenotypesChanged=0;PV4=0.62,0.24,0.034,1;R2=0.922;RPB=5.484225e-01;VDB=3.008871e-02     GT:GQ:OG:PL
     0|0:13:.:0,9,90 0|0:60:.:0,39,255       0|1:21:.:104,0,11
vcf
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updated by Ram Ram • written by jetsejacobi • jetsejacobi

From your example, there is already a DP tag. DP = 39 here.

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written by Jordan Jordan

This is the coverage summed over all different samples, I need the coverage per sample

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written by jetsejacobi • jetsejacobi

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If your version of samtools is new enough (it's present at least in 0.1.18), you can provide the '-D' option to mpileup to get per-sample read depth of high-quality reads (DP in genotype field) and high-quality variant reads (DV in genotype field) (as opposed to the depth across samples, which is indicated by the DP field in the INFO field).

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written by Bpow • Bpow

Thanks! this was exactly what I was looking for. Don't know why I couldn't find this option by my own. Now I read the manual again and I saw you were right!

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written by jetsejacobi • jetsejacobi

Just to keep this updated for samtools 1.2 onwards the -D is deprecated; now there is an option --output-tag DP

For samtools 1.2, mpileup -t has DP,DPR,DV,DP4,INFO/DPR,SP

For 1.3 DP4 has changed to ADF (Allelic depths on the forward strand, FORMAT) and ADR (Allelic depths on the reverse strand, FORMAT)

Possible -t values for 1.3: Comma-separated list of FORMAT and INFO tags to output (case-insensitive):

  • AD (Allelic depth, FORMAT),
  • INFO/AD (Total allelic depth, INFO),
  • ADF (Allelic depths on the forward strand, FORMAT),
  • INFO/ADF (Total allelic depths on the forward strand, INFO),
  • ADR (Allelic depths on the reverse strand, FORMAT),
  • INFO/ADR (Total allelic depths on the reverse strand, INFO),
  • DP (Number of high-quality bases, FORMAT),
  • DV (Deprecated in favor of AD; Number of high-quality non-reference bases, FORMAT),
  • DPR (Deprecated in favor of AD; Number of high-quality bases for each observed allele, FORMAT),
  • INFO/DPR (Number of high-quality bases for each observed allele, INFO),
  • DP4 (Deprecated in favor of ADF and ADR; Number of high-quality ref-forward, ref-reverse, alt-forward and alt-reverse bases, FORMAT),
  • SP (Phred-scaled strand bias P-value, FORMAT) [null]
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updated by Ram Ram • written by Pablo Marin-Garcia Pablo Marin-Garcia

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