Sort an ‘almost’ sorted VCF. Most variants should be sorted but a few consecutive lines might have been switched by a caller.
USE BCFTOOLS
This program is now part of the main jvarkit
tool. See jvarkit for compiling.
Usage: java -jar dist/jvarkit.jar almostsortedvcf [options] Files
Usage: almostsortedvcf [options] Files
Options:
-N, --buffersize
max records in ram
Default: 1000
-h, --help
print help and exit
--helpFormat
What kind of help. One of [usage,markdown,xml].
-o, --output
Output file. Optional . Default: stdout
--version
print version and exit
The project is licensed under the MIT license.
Should you cite almostsortedvcf ? https://github.com/mr-c/shouldacite/blob/master/should-I-cite-this-software.md
The current reference is:
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1425030
Lindenbaum, Pierre (2015): JVarkit: java-based utilities for Bioinformatics. figshare. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1425030
Barey used. Just use bcftools sort…
$ java -jar dist/almostsortedvcf.jar < in.vcf > out.vcf