On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 06:46:21PM +0000, Ellis Hughes wrote: > I have a question relating to samtools that I am hoping you can answer. I > noticed this morning after updating my samtools version, that the output from > mpileup had changed slightly. > > There was now a * where in previous versions there would have been a blank.
The previous versions sometimes produced * for blank fields and sometimes not. We considered this to be a bug and fixed it. See https://github.com/samtools/samtools/issues/496 for the gory details. > Is there was a flag to return the original functionality? No. I do not think we would want to add this either as in the previous version tools would have to cope with the presence of a "*" anyway. James -- James Bonfield ([email protected]) | Hora aderat briligi. Nunc et Slythia Tova | Plurima gyrabant gymbolitare vabo; A Staden Package developer: | Et Borogovorum mimzebant undique formae, https://sf.net/projects/staden/ | Momiferique omnes exgrabure Rathi. -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j _______________________________________________ Samtools-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/samtools-help
