show

Display project and system information

1. Usage

% vtools show -h

usage: vtools show [-h] [-l N] [-v {0,1,2,3}]
                   [{project,tables,table,samples,phenotypes,genotypes,fields,annotations,annotation,track,formats,format,tests,test,runtime_options,runtime_option,snapshot,snapshots}]
                   [items [items ...]]

Output information of all system and project related items such as variant
tables, samples, phenotypes, annotation databases and fields.

positional arguments:
  {project,tables,table,samples,phenotypes,genotypes,fields,annotations,annotation,track,formats,format,tests,test,runtime_options,runtime_option,snapshot,snapshots}
                        Type of information to display, which can be 'project'
                        for summary of a project, 'tables' for all variant
                        tables (or all tables if --verbosity=2), 'table TBL'
                        for details of a specific table TBL, 'samples [COND]'
                        for sample name, files from which samples are
                        imported, and associated phenotypes (can be supressed
                        by option --verbosity 0) of all or selected samples,
                        'phenotypes [P1 P2...]' for all or specified
                        phenotypes of samples, 'fields' for fields from
                        variant tables and all used annotation databases,
                        'annotations' for a list of all available annotation
                        databases, 'annotation ANN' for details about
                        annotation database ANN, 'track' for information of a
                        track file in tabixed vcf, bigWig, or bigBed format,
                        'formats' for all supported import and export formats,
                        'format FMT' for details of format FMT, 'tests' for a
                        list of all association tests, and 'test TST' for
                        details of an association test TST, 'runtime_options'
                        for a list of runtime options and their descriptions,
                        'runtime_option OPT' for value of specified runtime
                        option OPT, 'snapshot' for a particular snapshot by
                        name or filename, 'snapshots' for a list of publicly
                        available snapshots, and snapshots of the current
                        project saved by command 'vtools admin
                        --save_snapshots'. The default parameter of this
                        command is 'project'.
  items                 Items to display, which can be, for example, name of
                        table for type 'table', conditions to select samples
                        for type 'samples', a list of phenotypes for type
                        'phenotypes', name of an annotation database for type
                        'annotation', a pattern to selected annotation
                        databases for type 'annotations', name of a format for
                        type 'format', and name of an association test for
                        type 'test'.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -l N, --limit N       Limit output to the first N records.
  -v {0,1,2,3}, --verbosity {0,1,2,3}
                        Output error and warning (0), info (1), debug (2) and
                        trace (3) information to standard output (default to
                        1).

2. Details

Command `vtools show displays various project and system information. It accepts type of item to display as its first parameter, followed by names of items if information about particular items are needed. Generally speaking:

  • plural form of output type (e.g. tables, tests) lists all available items. Options are usually available to limit the items to display.
  • single form of output type (e.g. table, test) list details of a single item.
  • The verbosity level can be used to adjust output. For example, -v0 can usually be used to suppress description of items, and -v2 can be used to show more information.

2.1 Show project (project)

Command `vtools show without parameter and `vtools show project displays general information about a project, including project name, reference genome, existing variant tables, and used annotation databases.

Let us load a fairly large project from an online snapshot vt_ExomeAssociation,

% vtools init show
% vtools admin --load_snapshot vt_ExomeAssociation

Downloading snapshot vt_ExomeAssociation.tar.gz from online
INFO: Load genotypes
INFO: Snapshot vt_ExomeAssociation has been loaded


% vtools show

Project name:                show
Primary reference genome:    hg19
Secondary reference genome:  None
Runtime options:             verbosity=1
Variant tables:              rare
                             variant
Annotation databases:

The project has 2 variant tables, the master variant table and another variant tables rare. It uses the hg19 reference genome, and has not been connected to any annotation database.

2.2 Show variant and other tables (tables and table)

Command vtools show tables lists all variant tables, their creation dates and comments (if available). This command does not accept any additional parameter.

% vtools show tables

table      #variants     date  message
rare          19,785    Jan24  rare variants
variant       26,797

vtools show tables lists all variant tables of a project, with creation date and comment. If you only need to know information about a particular variant table, it is easier and faster to use command vtools show table TABLE. This command lists date of creation, a short description, number of variants and fields (only the master variant table has multiple fields). Perhaps more interestingly, it shows the command that has been used to create this variant table, which usually contain import information regarding from which table this table is drawn, and what criteria has been used.

% vtools show table rare

Name:                   rare
Type:                   variant
Description:            rare variants
Creation date:          Jan24
Command:                vtools select variant 'af<0.01 OR af>0.99' -t rare
                        'rare variants'
Fields:                 variant_id
Number of variants:     19785

2.3 Show samples (samples)

Command vtools show samples lists samples, files from which samples are imported, and phenotypes associated with each samples. The command by default lists all samples and phenotypes, but you can list part of the information by

  • Option --limit limit the output to the first few records
  • Option --samples can limit the samples to those that match specified criteria
  • Option -v 0 (--verbosity 0) supress phenotypes. This is useful when there are a large number of phenotypes
  • Option -v 2 lists full filenames. The default output lists part of the filenames if they are too long. Increasing verbosity level will show complete information.
% vtools show samples -l 10

sample_name  filename       gender  age  bmi          status  exposure
SAMP10       assoctest.dat  1       44   27.93818994  0       0
SAMP100      assoctest.dat  1       47   33.47268746  0       0
SAMP1000     assoctest.dat  1       50   26.4845      0       0
SAMP1001     assoctest.dat  2       59   24.02405     0       1
SAMP1002     assoctest.dat  2       61   26.32636     0       0
SAMP1003     assoctest.dat  1       49   24.4131      0       1
SAMP1004     assoctest.dat  1       57   30.57549     0       0
SAMP1005     assoctest.dat  2       57   28.40909     0       1
SAMP1006     assoctest.dat  2       48   28.7642      0       0
SAMP1007     assoctest.dat  1       65   24.14179     0       0
(3170 records omitted)

Show only male samples using condition gender=1 to select samples

% vtools show samples 'gender=1' -l 10

sample_name  filename       gender  age  bmi          status  exposure
SAMP10       assoctest.dat  1       44   27.93818994  0       0
SAMP100      assoctest.dat  1       47   33.47268746  0       0
SAMP1000     assoctest.dat  1       50   26.4845      0       0
SAMP1003     assoctest.dat  1       49   24.4131      0       1
SAMP1004     assoctest.dat  1       57   30.57549     0       0
SAMP1007     assoctest.dat  1       65   24.14179     0       0
SAMP1008     assoctest.dat  1       48   28.20037     0       1
SAMP1010     assoctest.dat  1       56   23.67424     0       1
SAMP1014     assoctest.dat  1       47   23.54056     0       0
SAMP1016     assoctest.dat  1       60   23.8961      0       0
(3170 records omitted)

Suppressing phenotypes and only show basic sample information

% vtools show samples  -l 10 -v0

sample_name  filename
SAMP10       assoctest.dat
SAMP100      assoctest.dat
SAMP1000     assoctest.dat
SAMP1001     assoctest.dat
SAMP1002     assoctest.dat
SAMP1003     assoctest.dat
SAMP1004     assoctest.dat
SAMP1005     assoctest.dat
SAMP1006     assoctest.dat
SAMP1007     assoctest.dat
(3170 records omitted)

2.4 Show all or selected phenotypes (phenotypes)

Command vtools show phenotypes is similar to vtools show samples but it does not show filename information and can display only specified phenotypes.

% vtools show phenotypes -l 10

sample_name  gender  age  bmi          status  exposure
SAMP10       1       44   27.93818994  0       0
SAMP100      1       47   33.47268746  0       0
SAMP1000     1       50   26.4845      0       0
SAMP1001     2       59   24.02405     0       1
SAMP1002     2       61   26.32636     0       0
SAMP1003     1       49   24.4131      0       1
SAMP1004     1       57   30.57549     0       0
SAMP1005     2       57   28.40909     0       1
SAMP1006     2       48   28.7642      0       0
SAMP1007     1       65   24.14179     0       0
(3170 records omitted)

Show values of specified phenotypes

% vtools show phenotypes exposure -l 10

sample_name  exposure
SAMP10       0
SAMP100      0
SAMP1000     0
SAMP1001     1
SAMP1002     0
SAMP1003     1
SAMP1004     0
SAMP1005     1
SAMP1006     0
SAMP1007     0
(3170 records omitted)

Another command vtools phenotype --output can also output selected phenotypes. It is more powerful in that it has better control of the format of output, and more importantly, allow output of summary statistics of phenotypes.

2.5 Show genotype information for each sample (genotypes)

Command vtools show genotypes shows the number of genotypes and names of genotype info fields of each sample. Such information are useful for the calculation of summary statistics of genotypes (e.g. depth of coverage) using commands vtools phenotype –from_stat(statistics for each sample) andvtools update –from_stat@@ (statistics for each variant).

% vtools show genotypes -l 10

sample_name  filename       num_genotypes  sample_genotype_fields
SAMP2        assoctest.dat  26612          GT
SAMP3        assoctest.dat  26613          GT
SAMP4        assoctest.dat  26600          GT
SAMP5        assoctest.dat  26600          GT
SAMP6        assoctest.dat  26603          GT
SAMP7        assoctest.dat  26584          GT
SAMP8        assoctest.dat  26612          GT
SAMP9        assoctest.dat  26585          GT
SAMP10       assoctest.dat  26613          GT
SAMP11       assoctest.dat  26588          GT
(3170 records omitted)

2.6 Show variant info and annotation fields (fields)

Command vtools show fields) lists all variant info fields (fields in the master variant table) and annotation fields (fields provided by annotation databases). Although these fields are from different sources, they can be used in the same manner to identify and filter variants (c.f. vtools select). If you only need to see a list of available fields, you can use option -v0 to suppress comments.

% vtools show fields

variant.chr (char)      Chromosome name (VARCHAR)
variant.pos (int)       Position (INT, 1-based)
variant.ref (char)      Reference allele (VARCHAR, - for missing allele of
                        an insertion)
variant.alt (char)      Alternative allele (VARCHAR, - for missing allele of
                        an deletion)
variant.cnt (int)
variant.hom (int)
variant.het (int)
variant.other (int)
variant.num (int)
variant.missing (int)
variant.wtGT (int)
variant.mutGT (int)
variant.af (float)

You can use option -v0 to suppress comments (which can be long):

% vtools show fields -v0

variant.chr
variant.pos
variant.ref
variant.alt
variant.cnt
variant.hom
variant.het
variant.other
variant.num
variant.missing
variant.wtGT
variant.mutGT
variant.af

2.7 Show annotation databases (annotations and annotation)

Command vtools show annotations displays all available annotation databases with their descriptions. Because of the growing number of annotation databases, the output of this command can be very long. You can however

  • Limit the databases by specifying a number of patterns. A database is eligible if its name contains any of the patterns.
  • Use option --limit to limit the number of annotation database displayed, or
  • Use option -v 0 to suppress descriptions of databases.
% vtools show annotations | head -50

CancerGeneCensus-20111215 Cancer Genome Project
CancerGeneCensus-20120315 Cancer Genome Project
CancerGeneCensus        Cancer Genome Project
CosmicCodingMuts-v61_260912 Cosmic coding mutation database.  This data
                        contains mutations affecting 10 or less nucleotides in
                        REF.  The mutation data was obtained from the Sanger
                        Institute Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer web
                        site, http://www.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic.  Bamford et al
                        (2004). The COSMIC (Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in
                        Cancer) database and website. Br J Cancer, 91,355-358.
CosmicCodingMuts        Cosmic coding mutation database.  This data contains
                        mutations affecting 10 or less nucleotides in REF.
                        The mutation data was obtained from the Sanger
                        Institute Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer web
                        site, http://www.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic.  Bamford et al
                        (2004). The COSMIC (Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in
                        Cancer) database and website. Br J Cancer, 91,355-358.
CosmicMutantExport-v61_260912 Cosmic mutant export.  This data contains all
                        coding point mutations.  The mutation data was
                        obtained from the Sanger Institute Catalogue Of
                        Somatic Mutations In Cancer web site,
                        http://www.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic.  Bamford et al (2004).
                        The COSMIC (Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer)
                        database and website. Br J Cancer, 91,355-358.
CosmicMutantExport      Cosmic mutant export.  This data contains all coding
                        point mutations.  The mutation data was obtained from
                        the Sanger Institute Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In
                        Cancer web site, http://www.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic.
                        Bamford et al (2004). The COSMIC (Catalogue of Somatic
                        Mutations in Cancer) database and website. Br J
                        Cancer, 91,355-358.
CosmicNonCodingVariants-v61_260912 Cosmic non-coding mutation database.  This
                        data contains mutations affecting 10 or less
                        nucleotides in REF.  The mutation data was obtained
                        from the Sanger Institute Catalogue Of Somatic
                        Mutations In Cancer web site,
                        http://www.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic.  Bamford et al (2004).
                        The COSMIC (Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer)
                        database and website. Br J Cancer, 91,355-358.
CosmicNonCodingVariants Cosmic non-coding mutation database.  This data
                        contains mutations affecting 10 or less nucleotides in
                        REF.  The mutation data was obtained from the Sanger
                        Institute Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer web
                        site, http://www.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic.  Bamford et al
                        (2004). The COSMIC (Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in
                        Cancer) database and website. Br J Cancer, 91,355-358.
ccdsGene-hg19_20110909  CCDS Genes
ccdsGene-hg19_20111206  CCDS Genes
ccdsGene                CCDS Genes
ccdsGene_exon-hg19_20110909 CCDS exons

You can list a subset of annotation databases by specifying one or more patterns:

% vtools show annotations thousand ccds

ccdsGene-hg19_20110909  CCDS Genes
ccdsGene-hg19_20111206  CCDS Genes
ccdsGene-hg19_20130904  High-confidence human gene annotations from the Consensus Coding
                        Sequence (CCDS) project.
ccdsGene-hg38_20171008  High-confidence human gene annotations from the Consensus Coding
                        Sequence (CCDS) project.
ccdsGene_exon-hg19_20110909 CCDS exons
ccdsGene_exon-hg19_20111206 CCDS exons
ccdsGene_exon-hg19_20130904 High-confidence human gene annotations from the Consensus Coding
                        Sequence (CCDS) project. This database contains all exon regions of the
                        CCDS genes.
ccdsGene_exon-hg38_20171008 CCDS exons
ccdsGene_exon_hg19-20111206 CCDS exons
ccdsGene_hg19-20111206  CCDS Genes
thousandGenomes-hg19_20130502 Phase 3 data of the thousand genomes project, created from
                        ftp://ftp-trace.ncbi.nih.gov/1000genomes/ftp/release/20130502/ALL.wgs.p
                        hase3_shapeit2_mvncall_integrated_v5a.20130502.sites.vcf.gz
thousandGenomes-hg19_v3_20101123 1000 Genomes VCF file analyzed in March 2012 from data
                        generated from phase 1 of the project (available from: ftp://ftp.1000ge
                        nomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/release/20110521/ALL.wgs.phase1_release_v3.201
                        01123.snps_indels_sv.sites.vcf.gz).
thousandGenomes-hg19_v5b_20130502 1000 Genomes VCF file analyzed in February 2015 from data
                        generated from phase 1 of the project (available from: ftp://ftp.1000ge
                        nomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/release/20130502/ALL.wgs.phase3_shapeit2_mvnca
                        ll_integrated_v5b.20130502.sites.vcf.gz.)

If you only need to see a list annotation databases without description, you can pass the -v0 option,

% vtools show annotations gene -v0

CancerGeneCensus-20111215
CancerGeneCensus-20120315
CancerGeneCensus-20130711
CancerGeneCensus-20170912
EntrezGene-20131028
EntrezGene-20170919
EntrezGene2RefSeq-20131028
EntrezGene2RefSeq-20170919
ccdsGene-hg19_20110909
ccdsGene-hg19_20111206
ccdsGene-hg19_20130904
ccdsGene-hg38_20171008
ccdsGene_exon-hg19_20110909
ccdsGene_exon-hg19_20111206
ccdsGene_exon-hg19_20130904
ccdsGene_exon-hg38_20171008
ccdsGene_exon_hg19-20111206
ccdsGene_hg19-20111206
dbNSFP_gene-2_0
dbNSFP_gene-2_1
dbNSFP_gene-2_3
dbNSFP_gene-2_4
dbNSFP_gene-2_7
dbNSFP_gene-3_5a
knownGene-hg18_20110909
knownGene-hg18_20121219
knownGene-hg19_20110909
knownGene-hg19_20121219
knownGene-hg19_20130904
knownGene-hg38_20160328
knownGene_exon-hg18_20110909
knownGene_exon-hg19_20110909
knownGene_exon-hg19_20130904
knownGene_exon-hg38_20160328
refGene-hg18_20110909
refGene-hg19_20110909
refGene-hg19_20130904
refGene-hg38_20170201
refGene-mm10_20141201
refGene_coding-hg19_20130904
refGene_exon-hg18_20110909
refGene_exon-hg19_20110909
refGene_exon-hg19_20130904
refGene_exon-mm10_20141201
refGene_exon-mm10_20171008

After using an annotation database with command vtools use, you can view the details of the annotation database using command vtools show annotation ANNODB. By default, this command displays basic information of the annotation database (type, number of records etc), and name and comment of each annotation field. If an -v 2 option is specified, it will also list the details of each fields, including range, unique values, and number of missing values.

% vtools show annotation knownGene

Annotation database knownGene (version hg19_20121219)
Description:            UCSC Known Genes
Database type:          range
Reference genome hg19:  chr, txStart, txEnd
  name                  Name of gene such as uc001aaa.3
  chr
  strand                which DNA strand contains the observed alleles
  txStart               Transcription start position
  txEnd                 Transcription end position
  cdsStart              Coding region start
  cdsEnd                Coding region end
  exonCount             Number of exons




% vtools show annotation knownGene -v2

DEBUG:
DEBUG: show annotation knownGene -v2
DEBUG: Using temporary directory /tmp/tmp3fjnagg2/_tmp_135971
Annotation database knownGene (version hg19_20130904)
Description:            Gene predictions based on data from RefSeq, Genbank, CCDS and UniProt, from the
  UCSC KnownGene track.
Database type:          range
Number of records:      82,960
Distinct ranges:        60,726
Reference genome hg19:  chr, txStart, txEnd

Field:                  name
Type:                   string
Comment:                Name of gene such as uc001aaa.3
Missing entries:        0
Unique Entries:         82,960

Field:                  chr
Type:                   string
Missing entries:        0
Unique Entries:         60

Field:                  strand
Type:                   string
Comment:                which DNA strand contains the observed alleles
Missing entries:        0
Unique Entries:         2

Field:                  txStart
Type:                   integer
Comment:                Transcription start position
Missing entries:        0
Unique Entries:         48,720
Range:                  1 - 249211537

Field:                  txEnd
Type:                   integer
Comment:                Transcription end position
Missing entries:        0
Unique Entries:         48,713
Range:                  368 - 249213345

Field:                  cdsStart
Type:                   integer
Comment:                Coding region start
Missing entries:        0
Unique Entries:         51,789
Range:                  1 - 249211537

Field:                  cdsEnd
Type:                   integer
Comment:                Coding region end
Missing entries:        0
Unique Entries:         51,745
Range:                  0 - 249212562

Field:                  exonCount
Type:                   integer
Comment:                Number of exons
Missing entries:        0
Unique Entries:         119
Range:                  1 - 5065

2.8 Show details of annotation tracks (track)

variant tools supports the use of annotation tracks to annotate and select variants. These tracks can be in tabix-indexed vcf files, indexed BAM file, bigBed and bigWig format and provides differnt fields through the second parameter of function track(filename, field). Command vtools show track is provided to display the details of each track file.

% vtools show track CEU_hg38.vcf | head -30

Version                 VCF v4.0
Number of fields:       69

Header: (exclude INFO and FORMAT lines)
                        ##reference=human_b36_both.fasta
                        ##rsIDs=dbSNP b129 mapped to NCBI 36.3, August 10, 2009

Available columns (with default type VARCHAR):
0 (INTEGER)             1 if matched
chr (1, chrom)          chromosome
pos (2 for INTEGER)     position (1-based)
name (3)                name of variant
ref (4)                 reference allele
alt (5)                 alternative alleles
qual (6)                qual
filter (7)              filter
info (8, default)       variant info fields
info.DP                 Total Depth
info.HM2                HapMap2 membership
info.HM3                HapMap3 membership
info.AA                 Ancestral Allele, ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/pilot_data/technical/reference/ancestral_alignments/README
info.AC                 Allele count in genotypes
info.AN                 Total number of alleles in called genotypes
format (9)              genotype format
NA06985 (10)            genotype for sample NA06985
NA06985.GT              Genotype for sample NA06985
NA06985.DP              Read Depth for sample NA06985
NA06985.CB              Called by S(Sanger), M(UMich), B(BI) for sample NA06985
NA06986 (11)            genotype for sample NA06986
NA06986.GT              Genotype for sample NA06986

Although cannot be used as track files, vtools show track can display information of plain vcf file (not compressed, with extension .vcf), which can be used to show useful information of the header of such files.

% vtools show track http://ftp-trace.ncbi.nih.gov/1000genomes/ftp/release/20110521/ALL.chr1.phase1_release_v3.20101123.snps_indels_svs.genotypes.vcf.gz | head -30


Version                 VCF v4.1
Number of fields:       1101

Header: (exclude INFO and FORMAT lines)
                        ##ALT=<ID=DEL,Description="Deletion">
                        ##reference=GRCh37
                        ##reference=GRCh37

Available columns (with default type VARCHAR):
0 (INTEGER)             1 if matched
chr (1, chrom)          chromosome
pos (2 for INTEGER)     position (1-based)
name (3)                name of variant
ref (4)                 reference allele
alt (5)                 alternative alleles
qual (6)                qual
filter (7)              filter
info (8, default)       variant info fields
info.LDAF               MLE Allele Frequency Accounting for LD
info.AVGPOST            Average posterior probability from MaCH/Thunder
info.RSQ                Genotype imputation quality from MaCH/Thunder
info.ERATE              Per-marker Mutation rate from MaCH/Thunder
info.THETA              Per-marker Transition rate from MaCH/Thunder
info.CIEND              Confidence interval around END for imprecise variants
info.CIPOS              Confidence interval around POS for imprecise variants
info.END                End position of the variant described in this record
info.HOMLEN             Length of base pair identical micro-homology at event breakpoints
info.HOMSEQ             Sequence of base pair identical micro-homology at event breakpoints
info.SVLEN              Difference in length between REF and ALT alleles
info.SVTYPE             Type of structural variant
% vtools show track wgEncodeDukeDnase8988T.fdr01peaks.hg19.bb

Version:                4
Item count:             196180
Primary data size:      1806867
Zoom levels:            8
Chrom count:            23
Chrom size:
    chr1                249250621
    chr10               135534747
    chr11               135006516
    chr12               133851895
    chr13               115169878
    chr14               107349540
    chr15               102531392
    chr16               90354753
    chr17               81195210
    chr18               78077248
    chr19               59128983
    chr2                243199373
    chr20               63025520
    chr21               48129895
    chr22               51304566
    chr3                198022430
    chr4                191154276
    chr5                180915260
    chr6                171115067
    chr7                159138663
    chr8                146364022
    chr9                141213431
    chrX                155270560
Bases covered           29405430
Mean depth:             1.000734
Min depth:              1.000000
Max depth:              2.000000
Std of depth:           0.027074
Number of fields:       10

Available columns (with default type VARCHAR):
chrom (1)               Name of the chromosome (or contig, scaffold, etc.).
chromStart (2 as INTEGER) The starting position of the feature in the chromosome
                        or scaffold. The first base in a chromosome is numbered
                        0.
chromEnd (3 as INTEGER) The ending position of the feature in the chromosome or
                        scaffold. The chromEnd base is not included in the display
                        of the feature. For example, the first 100 bases of a chromosome
                        are defined as chromStart=0, chromEnd=100, and span the
                        bases numbered 0-99.
name (4)                Name given to a region (preferably unique). Use '.' if no
                        name is assigned.
score (5 as INTEGER)    Indicates how dark the peak will be displayed in the browser
                        (0-1000). If all scores were '0' when the data were submitted
                        to the DCC, the DCC assigned scores 1-1000 based on signal
                        value. Ideally the average signalValue per base spread
                        is between 100-1000.
strand (6)              +/- to denote strand or orientation (whenever applicable).
                        Use '.' if no orientation is assigned.
signalValue (7 as FLOAT) Measurement of overall (usually, average) enrichment for
                        the region
pValue (8 as FLOAT)     Measurement of statistical significance (-log10, -1 if no
                        pValue is assigned)
qValue (9 as FLOAT)     Measurement of statistical significance using false discovery
                        rate (-log10, -1 if no qValue is assigned)
peak (10 as INTEGER)    Point-source called for this peak; 0-based offset from chromStart
                        (-1 if no point-source called)
% vtools show track ~/vtools/wgEncodeGisRnaSeqH1hescCellPapPlusRawRep1.bigWig


Version:                4
Primary data size       226114375
Zoom levels:            10
Chrom count:            25
Chrom size:
    chr1                249250621
    chr10               135534747
    chr11               135006516
    chr12               133851895
    chr13               115169878
    chr14               107349540
    chr15               102531392
    chr16               90354753
    chr17               81195210
    chr18               78077248
    chr19               59128983
    chr2                243199373
    chr20               63025520
    chr21               48129895
    chr22               51304566
    chr3                198022430
    chr4                191154276
    chr5                180915260
    chr6                171115067
    chr7                159138663
    chr8                146364022
    chr9                141213431
    chrM                16571
    chrX                155270560
    chrY                59373566
Bases covered:          84281746
Mean:                   10.253978
Min:                    1.000000
Max:                    46751.000000
std:                    119.977095
Number of fields:       4

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chrom (1)               chromosome
chromStart (2 as INTEGER) start position (0-based)
chromEnd (3 as INTEGER) end position (1-based)
value (4 as FLOAT)      value
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@SQ	SN:18	LN:78077248	M5:b15d4b2d29dde9d3e4f93d1d0f2cbc9c	UR:ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/technical/reference/phase2_reference_assembly_sequence/hs37d5.fa.gz        AS:NCBI37       SP:Human
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@SQ	SN:21	LN:48129895	M5:2979a6085bfe28e3ad6f552f361ed74d	UR:ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/technical/reference/phase2_reference_assembly_sequence/hs37d5.fa.gz        AS:NCBI37       SP:Human
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@SQ	SN:X	LN:155270560	M5:7e0e2e580297b7764e31dbc80c2540dd	UR:ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/technical/reference/phase2_reference_assembly_sequence/hs37d5.fa.gz        AS:NCBI37       SP:Human
@SQ	SN:Y	LN:59373566	M5:1fa3474750af0948bdf97d5a0ee52e51	UR:ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/technical/reference/phase2_reference_assembly_sequence/hs37d5.fa.gz        AS:NCBI37       SP:Human
@SQ	SN:MT	LN:16569	M5:c68f52674c9fb33aef52dcf399755519	UR:ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/technical/reference/phase2_reference_assembly_sequence/hs37d5.fa.gz        AS:NCBI37       SP:Human
@SQ	SN:GL000207.1	LN:4262	M5:f3814841f1939d3ca19072d9e89f3fd7	UR:ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/technical/reference/phase2_reference_assembly_sequence/hs37d5.fa.gz        AS:NCBI37       SP:Human
@SQ	SN:GL000226.1	LN:15008	M5:1c1b2cd1fccbc0a99b6a447fa24d1504	UR:ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/technical/reference/phase2_reference_assembly_sequence/hs37d5.fa.gz        AS:NCBI37       SP:Human
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@SQ	SN:GL000235.1	LN:34474	M5:118a25ca210cfbcdfb6c2ebb249f9680	UR:ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/technical/reference/phase2_reference_assembly_sequence/hs37d5.fa.gz        AS:NCBI37       SP:Human
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@SQ	SN:GL000227.1	LN:128374	M5:a4aead23f8053f2655e468bcc6ecdceb	UR:ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/technical/reference/phase2_reference_assembly_sequence/hs37d5.fa.gz        AS:NCBI37       SP:Human
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@SQ	SN:GL000223.1	LN:180455	M5:399dfa03bf32022ab52a846f7ca35b30	UR:ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/technical/reference/phase2_reference_assembly_sequence/hs37d5.fa.gz        AS:NCBI37       SP:Human
@SQ	SN:GL000195.1	LN:182896	M5:5d9ec007868d517e73543b005ba48535	UR:ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/technical/reference/phase2_reference_assembly_sequence/hs37d5.fa.gz        AS:NCBI37       SP:Human
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@SQ	SN:GL000194.1	LN:191469	M5:6ac8f815bf8e845bb3031b73f812c012	UR:ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/technical/reference/phase2_reference_assembly_sequence/hs37d5.fa.gz        AS:NCBI37       SP:Human
@SQ	SN:GL000225.1	LN:211173	M5:63945c3e6962f28ffd469719a747e73c	UR:ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/technical/reference/phase2_reference_assembly_sequence/hs37d5.fa.gz        AS:NCBI37       SP:Human
@SQ	SN:GL000192.1	LN:547496	M5:325ba9e808f669dfeee210fdd7b470ac	UR:ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/technical/reference/phase2_reference_assembly_sequence/hs37d5.fa.gz        AS:NCBI37       SP:Human
@SQ	SN:NC_007605	LN:171823	M5:6743bd63b3ff2b5b8985d8933c53290a	UR:ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/technical/reference/phase2_reference_assembly_sequence/hs37d5.fa.gz        AS:NCBI37       SP:Human
@SQ	SN:hs37d5	LN:35477943	M5:5b6a4b3a81a2d3c134b7d14bf6ad39f1	UR:ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/technical/reference/phase2_reference_assembly_sequence/hs37d5.fa.gz        AS:NCBI37       SP:Human
@RG	ID:SRR062634	LB:2845856850	SM:HG00096	PI:206	CN:WUGSC	PL:ILLUMINA	DS:SRP001294
@RG	ID:SRR062635	LB:2845856850	SM:HG00096	PI:206	CN:WUGSC	PL:ILLUMINA	DS:SRP001294
@RG	ID:SRR062641	LB:2845856850	SM:HG00096	PI:206	CN:WUGSC	PL:ILLUMINA	DS:SRP001294
@PG	ID:bwa_index	PN:bwa	VN:0.5.9-r16	CL:bwa index -a bwtsw \\(reference_fasta
@PG	ID:bwa_aln_fastq	PN:bwa	PP:bwa_index	VN:0.5.9-r16	CL:bwa aln -q 15 -f \\(sai_file \\(reference_fasta \\(fastq_file
@PG	ID:bwa_sam	PN:bwa	PP:bwa_aln_fastq	VN:0.5.9-r16	CL:bwa sampe -a 618 -r \\(rg_line -f \\(sam_file \\(reference_fasta \\(sai_file(s) \\(fastq_file(s)
@PG	ID:sam_to_fixed_bam	PN:samtools	PP:bwa_sam	VN:0.1.17 (r973:277)	CL:samtools view -bSu \\(sam_file | samtools sort -n -o - samtools_nsort_tmp | samtools fixmate /dev/stdin /dev/stdout | samtools sort -o - samtools_csort_tmp | samtools fillmd -u - \\(reference_fasta > \\(fixed_bam_file
@PG	ID:gatk_target_interval_creator	PN:GenomeAnalysisTK	PP:sam_to_fixed_bam	VN:1.2-29-g0acaf2d	CL:java \\(jvm_args -jar GenomeAnalysisTK.jar -T RealignerTargetCreator -R \\(reference_fasta -o \\(intervals_file -known \\(known_indels_file(s)
@PG	ID:bam_realignment_around_known_indels	PN:GenomeAnalysisTK	PP:gatk_target_interval_creator	VN:1.2-29-g0acaf2d	CL:java \\(jvm_args -jar GenomeAnalysisTK.jar -T IndelRealigner -R \\(reference_fasta -I \\(bam_file -o \\(realigned_bam_file -targetIntervals \\(intervals_file -known \\(known_indels_file(s) -LOD 0.4 -model KNOWNS_ONLY -compress 0 --disable_bam_indexing
@PG	ID:bam_count_covariates	PN:GenomeAnalysisTK	PP:bam_realignment_around_known_indels	VN:1.2-29-g0acaf2d	CL:java \\(jvm_args -jar GenomeAnalysisTK.jar -T CountCovariates -R \\(reference_fasta -I \\(bam_file -recalFile \\(bam_file.recal_data.csv -knownSites \\(known_sites_file(s) -l INFO -L '1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9;10;11;12;13;14;15;16;17;18;19;20;21;22;X;Y;MT' -cov ReadGroupCovariate -cov QualityScoreCovariate -cov CycleCovariate -cov DinucCovariate
@PG	ID:bam_recalibrate_quality_scores	PN:GenomeAnalysisTK	PP:bam_count_covariates	VN:1.2-29-g0acaf2d	CL:java \\(jvm_args -jar GenomeAnalysisTK.jar -T TableRecalibration -R \\(reference_fasta -recalFile \\(bam_file.recal_data.csv -I \\(bam_file -o \\(recalibrated_bam_file -l INFO -compress 0 --disable_bam_indexing
@PG	ID:bam_calculate_bq	PN:samtools	PP:bam_recalibrate_quality_scores	VN:0.1.17 (r973:277)	CL:samtools calmd -Erb \\(bam_file \\(reference_fasta > \\(bq_bam_file
@PG	ID:bam_merge	PN:picard	PP:bam_calculate_bq	VN:1.53	CL:java \\(jvm_args -jar MergeSamFiles.jar INPUT=$bam_file(s) OUTPUT=$merged_bam VALIDATION_STRINGENCY=SILENT
@PG	ID:bam_mark_duplicates	PN:picard	PP:bam_merge	VN:1.53	CL:java \\(jvm_args -jar MarkDuplicates.jar INPUT=$bam_file OUTPUT=$markdup_bam_file ASSUME_SORTED=TRUE METRICS_FILE=/dev/null VALIDATION_STRINGENCY=SILENT
@PG	ID:bam_merge.1	PN:picard	PP:bam_mark_duplicates	VN:1.53	CL:java \\(jvm_args -jar MergeSamFiles.jar INPUT=$bam_file(s) OUTPUT=$merged_bam VALIDATION_STRINGENCY=SILENT
@CO	$known_indels_file(s) = ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/technical/reference/phase2_mapping_resources/ALL.wgs.indels_mills_devine_hg19_leftAligned_collapsed_double_hit.indels.sites.vcf.gz
@CO	$known_indels_file(s) .= ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/technical/reference/phase2_mapping_resources/ALL.wgs.low_coverage_vqsr.20101123.indels.sites.vcf.gz
@CO	$known_sites_file(s) = ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/technical/reference/phase2_mapping_resources/ALL.wgs.dbsnp.build135.snps.sites.vcf.gz

Chrom size:             86
    1                   249250621
    2                   243199373
    3                   198022430
    4                   191154276
    5                   180915260
    6                   171115067
    7                   159138663
    8                   146364022
    9                   141213431
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    12                  133851895
    13                  115169878
    14                  107349540
    15                  102531392
    16                  90354753
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    18                  78077248
    19                  59128983
    20                  63025520
    21                  48129895
    22                  51304566
    X                   155270560
    Y                   59373566
    MT                  16569
    GL000207.1          4262
    GL000226.1          15008
    GL000229.1          19913
    GL000231.1          27386
    GL000210.1          27682
    GL000239.1          33824
    GL000235.1          34474
    GL000201.1          36148
    GL000247.1          36422
    GL000245.1          36651
    GL000197.1          37175
    GL000203.1          37498
    GL000246.1          38154
    GL000249.1          38502
    GL000196.1          38914
    GL000248.1          39786
    GL000244.1          39929
    GL000238.1          39939
    GL000202.1          40103
    GL000234.1          40531
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    GL000241.1          42152
    GL000243.1          43341
    GL000242.1          43523
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    GL000233.1          45941
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    GL000214.1          137718
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    GL000218.1          161147
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    GL000213.1          164239
    GL000211.1          166566
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    GL000217.1          172149
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    GL000215.1          172545
    GL000205.1          174588
    GL000219.1          179198
    GL000224.1          179693
    GL000223.1          180455
    GL000195.1          182896
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    GL000222.1          186861
    GL000200.1          187035
    GL000193.1          189789
    GL000194.1          191469
    GL000225.1          211173
    GL000192.1          547496
    NC_007605           171823
    hs37d5              35477943

Tags that can be outputed or used in filters, with values from the 1st record:
X0                      c (int8)   : 10
X1                      c (int8)   : 0
MD                      Z (string) : 0A99
RG                      Z (string) : SRR062634
AM                      c (int8)   : 0
NM                      c (int8)   : 1
SM                      c (int8)   : 0
MQ                      c (int8)   : 0
XT                      A (char)   : R
BQ                      Z (string) : C[Y@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

Parameters min_qual, min_mapq and TAG=VAL can be used to limit the reads to the
ones with mapq and qual scores that exceed the specified value, and with specified TAG.

The header of BAM track provides many important information about the bam file. You should consult the SAM format specification for the meaning of them, but briefly:

  • HD - header: VN is for file format version, SO for sort order, which can be unsorted, queryname or coordinate.
  • SQ - Sequence dictionary: SN is sequence name, @LNis sequence length. This might repeat the chromome length information listed below.ASreference genome used for assembly,SP@@ for species.
  • RG - Read group: ID for read group identifier, SM for sample, LB for library, DS for description, PU for platform unit, DT for date the run was produced, PL for platform (e.g. illumina).
  • PG - Program: ID for program name, VN for program version, CL for command line.
  • CO - Comment

The tags are also important if you need to filter reads by tag values. For example, RG can be used to differentiate reads that belong to different samples if the bam file contains reads from multiple samples.

2.9 Show supported input and output file formats (formats and format)

variant tools repository has a number of file format description files .fmt that defines a formats of files that can be used for commands vtools import, vtools update --from_file, and vtools export. To get a complete list of supported file formats, you can use command vtools show formats. Options -v0 and --limit are supported to suppress comment and limit number of formats to display, respectively.

% vtools show formats | head -50

CASAVA18_snps           Input format illumina snps.txt file, created by CASAVA
                        version 1.8
                        (http://www.illumina.com/support/documentation.ilmn).
                        This format imports chr, pos, ref, alt of most likely
                        genotype, and a Q score for the most likely genotype.
plink                   Input format for PLINK dataset. Currently only PLINK
                        binary PED file format is supported (*.bed, *.bim &
                        *.fam)
ANNOVAR                 Input format of ANNOVAR. No genotype is defined.
pileup_indel            Input format for samtools pileup indel caller. This
                        format imports chr, pos, ref, alt and genotype.
ANNOVAR_exonic_variant_function Output from ANNOVAR, generated from command
                        "path/to/annovar/annotate_variation.pl annovar.txt
                        path/to/annovar/humandb/". This format imports chr,
                        pos, ref, alt and ANNOVAR annotations. For details
                        please refer to http://www.openbioinformatics.org/anno
                        var/annovar_gene.html
ANNOVAR_variant_function Output from ANNOVAR for files of type
                        "*.variant_function", generated from command
                        "path/to/annovar/annotate_variation.pl annovar.txt
                        path/to/annovar/humandb/". This format imports chr,
                        pos, ref, alt and ANNOVAR annotations. For details
                        please refer to http://www.openbioinformatics.org/anno
                        var/annovar_gene.html
CGA                     Input format from Complete Genomics Variant file
                        masterVarBeta-[ASM-ID].tsv.bz2, created by Complete
                        Genomcis Analysis Tools (GSA Tools 1.5 or eariler,
                        http://www.completegenomics.com/sequence-
                        data/cgatools/, http://media.completegenomics.com/docu
                        ments/DataFileFormats+Standard+Pipeline+2.0.pdf). This
                        format imports chr, pos, ref, alt of only variants
                        that have been fully called and are not equals to ref.
                        (E.g. records with zygosity equal to no-call and half,
                        and varType equal to ref are discarded.)
map                     This input format imports variants from files in MAP
                        format (with columns chr, name gen_dist, pos), or any
                        delimiter-separated format with columns chr and pos.
                        Because these input files do not contain reference and
                        alternative alleles of variants, this format queries
                        such information from the dbSNP database using chr and
                        pos. Records that does not exist in dbSNP will be
                        discarded. Records with multiple alternative alleles
                        will lead to multiple records.
polyphen2               To be used to export variants in a format that is
                        acceptable by the polyphen2 server
                        http://genetics.bwh.harvard.edu/pph2/bgi.shtml, and to
                        import the FULL report returned by this server.
basic                   A basic variant input format with four columns: chr,
                        pos, ref, alt.
vcf                     Import vcf

Comments can be suppressed using option -v0,

% vtools show formats -v0

CASAVA18_snps
plink
ANNOVAR
pileup_indel
ANNOVAR_exonic_variant_function
ANNOVAR_variant_function
CGA
map
polyphen2
basic
vcf
CASAVA18_indels
csv
tped

You can use command vtools show format FMT to list the details of a format. Note that

  • Columns are used to direct output. If no column is specified, the format cannot be used for command vtools export.
  • A input file format can have type variant, position, and range. Command vtools import can only import data from variant-based files (because it imports variants). In comparison, command vtools update can update existing variant using all three types of input files.
  • Format options can be used to customized how to import/export data using the format.
% vtools show format map

Format:                 map
Description:            This input format imports variants from files in MAP
  format (with columns chr, name gen_dist, pos), or any delimiter-separated
  format with columns chr and pos. Because these input files do not contain
  reference and alternative alleles of variants, this format queries such
  information from the dbSNP database using chr and pos. Records that does not
  exist in dbSNP will be discarded. Records with multiple alternative alleles
  will lead to multiple records.

Columns:
  None defined, cannot export to this format

variant:
  chr                   Chromosome
  pos                   1-based position
  ref                   Reference allele, '-' for insertion.
  alt                   Alternative allele obtained from another database

Format parameters:
  db_file                (default: dbSNP.DB)
  pos_idx               Index of column for pyhysical location in the map
                        file, should be 4 for a standard map file with chr,
                        pos, gen_dist, pos. (default: 4)
  ref_field             Name of ref field from the annotation database, used
                        to retrieve reference allele at specified location.
                        (default: refNCBI)
  alt_field             Name of alt field from the annotation database, used
                        to retrieve alternative allele at specified location.
                        (default: alt)
  chr_field             Name of chr field from the annotation database, used
                        to locate variants from the dbSNP database. (default:
                        chr)
  pos_field             Name of pos field from the annotation database, used
                        to locate variants from the dbSNP database. (default:
                        start)
  separator             Separator of the input file, default to space or tab.
                        (default: None)

2.10 Show association tests (tests and test)

Command vtools show tests shows a list of association tests that can be used in command vtools associate. Similar to other commands, option -v0 and --limit can be used to suppress description of tests and limit the number of tests to display.

% vtools show tests

BurdenBt                Burden test for disease traits, Morris & Zeggini 2009
BurdenQt                Burden test for quantitative traits, Morris & Zeggini
                        2009
CFisher                 Fisher's exact test on collapsed variant loci, Li &
                        Leal 2008
Calpha                  c-alpha test for unusual distribution of variants
                        between cases and controls, Neale et al 2011
CollapseBt              Collapsing method for disease traits, Li & Leal 2008
CollapseQt              Collapsing method for quantitative traits, Li & Leal
                        2008
GroupStat               Calculates basic statistics for each testing group
GroupWrite              Write data to disk for each testing group
KBAC                    Kernel Based Adaptive Clustering method, Liu & Leal
                        2010
LinRegBurden            A versatile framework of association tests for
                        quantitative traits
LogitRegBurden          A versatile framework of association tests for disease
                        traits
RBT                     Replication Based Test for protective and deleterious
                        variants, Ionita-Laza et al 2011
RTest                   A general framework for association analysis using R
                        programs
RareCover               A "covering" method for detecting rare variants
                        association, Bhatia et al 2010.
SKAT                    SKAT (Wu et al 2011) and SKAT-O (Lee et al 2012)
SSeq_common             Score statistic / SCORE-Seq software (Tang & Lin
                        2011), for common variants analysis
SSeq_rare               Score statistic / SCORE-Seq software (Tang & Lin
                        2011), for rare variants analysis
VTtest                  VT statistic for disease traits, Price et al 2010
VariableThresholdsBt    Variable thresholds method for disease traits, in the
                        spirit of Price et al 2010
VariableThresholdsQt    Variable thresholds method for quantitative traits, in
                        the spirit of Price et al 2010
WSSRankTest             Weighted sum method using rank test statistic, Madsen
                        & Browning 2009
WeightedBurdenBt        Weighted genotype burden tests for disease traits,
                        using one or many arbitrary external weights as well
                        as one of 4 internal weighting themes
WeightedBurdenQt        Weighted genotype burden tests for quantitative
                        traits, using one or many arbitrary external weights
                        as well as one of 4 internal weighting themes
aSum                    Adaptive Sum score test for protective and deleterious
                        variants, Han & Pan 2010

Display only the first 5 tests without description:

% vtools show tests -v0 -l 5

BurdenBt
BurdenQt
CFisher
Calpha
CollapseBt
(19 records omitted)

If you are interested in more details of a particular test, you can use command vtools show test TEST. This should give you a detailed description of the test, and all the options the test accept.

% vtools show test LogitRegBurden

Name:          LogitRegBurden
Description:   A versatile framework of association tests for disease traits
usage: vtools associate --method LogitRegBurden [-h] [--name NAME]
                                                [-q1 MAFUPPER] [-q2 MAFLOWER]
                                                [--alternative TAILED]
                                                [--use_indicator] [-p N]
                                                [--permute_by XY]
                                                [--adaptive C]
                                                [--variable_thresholds]
                                                [--extern_weight [EXTERN_WEIGHT [EXTERN_WEIGHT ...]]]
                                                [--weight {Browning_all,Browning,KBAC,RBT}]
                                                [--NA_adjust]
                                                [--moi {additive,dominant,recessive}]

Logistic regression test. p-value is based on the significance level of the
regression coefficient for genotypes. If --group_by option is specified, it
will collapse the variants within a group into a generic genotype score

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --name NAME           Name of the test that will be appended to names of
                        output fields, usually used to differentiate output of
                        different tests, or the same test with different
                        parameters.
  -q1 MAFUPPER, --mafupper MAFUPPER
                        Minor allele frequency upper limit. All variants
                        having sample MAF<=m1 will be included in analysis.
                        Default set to 1.0
  -q2 MAFLOWER, --maflower MAFLOWER
                        Minor allele frequency lower limit. All variants
                        having sample MAF>m2 will be included in analysis.
                        Default set to 0.0
  --alternative TAILED  Alternative hypothesis is one-sided ("1") or two-sided
                        ("2"). Default set to 1
  --use_indicator       This option, if evoked, will apply binary coding to
                        genotype groups (coding will be "1" if ANY locus in
                        the group has the alternative allele, "0" otherwise)
  -p N, --permutations N
                        Number of permutations
  --permute_by XY       Permute phenotypes ("Y") or genotypes ("X"). Default
                        is "Y"
  --adaptive C          Adaptive permutation using Edwin Wilson 95 percent
                        confidence interval for binomial distribution. The
                        program will compute a p-value every 1000 permutations
                        and compare the lower bound of the 95 percent CI of
                        p-value against "C", and quit permutations with the
                        p-value if it is larger than "C". It is recommended to
                        specify a "C" that is slightly larger than the
                        significance level for the study. To disable the
                        adaptive procedure, set C=1. Default is C=0.1
  --variable_thresholds
                        This option, if evoked, will apply variable thresholds
                        method to the permutation routine in burden test on
                        aggregated variant loci
  --extern_weight [EXTERN_WEIGHT [EXTERN_WEIGHT ...]]
                        External weights that will be directly applied to
                        genotype coding. Names of these weights should be in
                        one of '--var_info' or '--geno_info'. If multiple
                        weights are specified, they will be applied to
                        genotypes sequentially. Note that all weights will be
                        masked if --use_indicator is evoked.
  --weight {Browning_all,Browning,KBAC,RBT}
                        Internal weighting themes inspired by various
                        association methods. Valid choices are:
                        'Browning_all', 'Browning', 'KBAC' and 'RBT'. Except
                        for 'Browning_all' weighting, tests using all other
                        weighting themes has to calculate p-value via
                        permutation. For details of the weighting themes,
                        please refer to the online documentation.
  --NA_adjust           This option, if evoked, will replace missing genotype
                        values with a score relative to sample allele
                        frequencies. The association test will be adjusted to
                        incorporate the information. This is an effective
                        approach to control for type I error due to
                        differential degrees of missing genotypes among
                        samples.
  --moi {additive,dominant,recessive}
                        Mode of inheritance. Will code genotypes as 0/1/2/NA
                        for additive mode, 0/1/NA for dominant or recessive
                        mode. Default set to additive

2.11 Show currently available snapshots (snapshots and snapshot)

You can save snapshots of the current project and revert to them later. This allows you to recover a project when it is damaged by wrong operations or system failure, and more importantly, allows you to explore different processing pipelines with a saved baseline stage. The command vtools show snapshots lists information about all snapshots. Names starting with vt_ are online snapshots that will be downloaded automatically using command vtools admin --load_snapshot NAME. These snapshots contain sample projects and data and are ideal for learning variant tools.

Note that:

  • Project-specific snapshots are stored under the project cache directory and are listed by command vtools show snapshots.
  • Snapshots saved locally (use a filename with vtools admin --save_snapshot) can be saved in any directory and will not be listed by command vtools show snapshots. Command vtools show snapshot FILENAME can be used to show details of such snapshots.
% vtools show snapshots

vt_qc                   snapshot for QC tutorial, exome data of 1000 genomes
                        project with simulated GD and GQ scores (online
                        snapshot)
vt_ExomeAssociation     Data with ~26k variants from chr1 and 2, ~3k samples,
                        3 phenotypes, ready for association testing. (online
                        snapshot)
vt_quickStartGuide      A simple project with variants from the CEU and JPT
                        pilot data of the 1000 genome project (online
                        snapshot)
vt_illuminaTestData     Test data with 1M paired reads (online snapshot)
vt_simple               A simple project with variants imported from three vcf
                        files (online snapshot)
vt_testData             An empty project with some test datasets (online
                        snapshot)

If we create a snapshot,

% vtools admin --save_snapshot test1 'a test snapshot'

INFO: Copying genotypes
INFO: Snapshot test1 has been saved

It will be displayed in the list

% vtools show snapshots

test1                   a test snapshot  (created: Jul12 16:37:00)
vt_ExomeAssociation     Data with ~26k variants from chr1 and 2, ~3k samples,
                        3 phenotypes, ready for association testing.
                        (created: Jul12 03:35:50)
vt_qc                   snapshot for QC tutorial, exome data of 1000 genomes
                        project with simulated GD and GQ scores (online
                        snapshot)
vt_ExomeAssociation     Data with ~26k variants from chr1 and 2, ~3k samples,
                        3 phenotypes, ready for association testing. (online
                        snapshot)
vt_quickStartGuide      A simple project with variants from the CEU and JPT
                        pilot data of the 1000 genome project (online
                        snapshot)
vt_illuminaTestData     Test data with 1M paired reads (online snapshot)
vt_simple               A simple project with variants imported from three vcf
                        files (online snapshot)
vt_testData             An empty project with some test datasets (online
                        snapshot)

Such local snapshots are stored in the project cache directory and are listed automatically. However, if you create a local snapshot by specifying a filename (with suffix .tar or .tar.gz), such snapshots will not be displayed.

% vtools admin --save_snapshot local_snapshot.tar 'a local snapshot'

INFO: Copying genotypes
INFO: Snapshot local_snapshot.tar has been saved




% vtools show snapshots -l 2 -v0

test1
vt_ExomeAssociation

You can show the details of such snapshots using command vtools show snapshot NAME though.

% vtools show snapshot local_snapshot.tar

Name:                   local_snapshot.tar
Source:                 local
Creation date:          Jul12 16:39:24
Description:            a local snapshot

2.12 Show a list of runtime options (runtime_options and runtime_option)

variant tools provides a number of runtime options that can be used to fine-tune the behavior of commands. You can use command vtools show runtime_options to get the name and description of these options. If you simply need to see a list of options, you can pass option -v0 to suppress descriptions. Please see command vtools admin --set_runtime_option for details.

% vtools show runtime_options | head -50

associate_num_of_readers None (default)
                        Use specified number of processes to read genotype
                        data for association tests. The default value is the
                        minimum of value of option --jobs and 8. Note that a
                        large number of reading processes might lead to
                        degraded performance or errors due to disk access
                        limits.
association_timeout     None (default)
                        Cancel associate test and return special values when a
                        test lasts more than specified time (in seconds). The
                        default value of this option is None, which stands for
                        no time limit.
import_num_of_readers   2 (default)
                        variant tools by default uses two processes to read
                        from input files during multi-process importing
                        (--jobs > 0). You can want to set it to zero if a
                        single process provides better performance or reduces
                        disk traffic.
local_resource          ~/.variant_tools (default)
                        A directory to store variant tools related resources
                        such as reference genomes and annotation database.
                        Files under this directory is usually downloaded
                        automatically upon use, but can also be synchronized
                        directly from
                        http://vtools.houstonbioinformatics.org/.
logfile_verbosity       2 (default)
                        Verbosity level of the log file, can be 0 for warning
                        and error only, 1 for general information, or 2 for
                        general and debug information.
search_path             .;http://vtools.houstonbioinformatics.org/ (default)
                        A ;-separated list of directories and URLs that are
                        used to locate annotation database (.ann, .DB), file
                        format (.fmt) and other files. Reset this option
                        allows alternative local or online storage of such
                        files. variant tools will append trailing directories
                        such as annoDB for certain types of data so only root
                        directories should be listed in this search path.
sqlite_pragma            (default)
                        pragmas for sqlite database that can be used to
                        optimize the performance of database operations.
temp_dir                None (default)
                        Use the specified temporary directory to store
                        temporary files to improve performance (use separate
                        disks for project and temp files), or avoid problems
                        due to insufficient disk space.
treat_missing_as_wildtype False (default)
                        Treat missing values as wildtype alleles for
                        association tests. This option is used when samples
                        are called individuals or in batch so genotypes for
                        some samples are ignored and treated as missing if

to see a list of runtime options, use command

% vtools show runtime_options -v0

associate_num_of_readers
association_timeout
import_num_of_readers
local_resource
logfile_verbosity
search_path
sqlite_pragma
temp_dir
treat_missing_as_wildtype
verbosity

Furthermore, if you only need to check the exiting value of a runtime option, you can use command vtools show runtime_option OPT,

% vtools show runtime_option local_resource

~/.variant_tools