+Beta Release 0.1.18 (2 September, 2011)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Notable changes in samtools:
+
+ * Support the new =/X CIGAR operators (by Peter Cock).
+
+ * Allow to subsample BAM while keeping the pairing intact (view -s).
+
+ * Implemented variant distance bias as a new filter (by Petr Danecek).
+
+ * Bugfix: huge memory usage during indexing
+
+ * Bugfix: use of uninitialized variable in mpileup (rare)
+
+ * Bugfix: wrong BAQ probability (rare)
+
+Notable changes in bcftools:
+
+ * Support indel in the contrast caller.
+
+ * Bugfix: LRT2=nan in rare cases
+
+(0.1.18: 2 September 2011, r982:295)
+
+
+
+Beta Release 0.1.17 (6 July, 2011)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+With the maturity of `mpileup' and the lack of update in the `pileup' command,
+the `pileup' command is now formally dropped. Most of the pileup functionality,
+such as outputting mapping quality and read positions, have been added
+`mpileup'.
+
+Since this release, `bcftools view' is able to perform contrast SNP calling
+(option -T) for discovering de novo and/or somatic mutations between a pair of
+samples or in a family trio. Potential mutations are scored by a log likelihood
+ratio, which is very simple in math, but should be comparable to more
+sophisticated methods. Note that getting the score is only the very first step.
+A lot more need to be done to reduce systematical errors due to mapping and
+reference errors and structural variations.
+
+Other notable changes in samtools:
+
+ * Improved sorting order checking during indexing.
+
+ * Improved region parsing. Colons in reference sequence names are parsed
+ properly.
+
+ * Fixed an issue where mpileup does not apply BAQ for the first few reads when
+ a region is specified.
+
+ * Fixed an issue where `faidx' does not work with FASTA files with long lines.
+
+ * Bugfix: wrong SP genotype information in the BCF output.
+
+Other notable changes in bcftools:
+
+ * Output the ML esitmate of the allele count.
+
+ * Added the HWE plus F<0 filter to varFilter. For multiple samples, it
+ effectively filters false heterozygous calls around centromeres.
+
+ * For association mapping, perform both 1-degree and 2-degree test. The
+ 2-degree test is conservative but more robust to HWE violation.
+
+(0.1.17: 6 July 2011, r973:277)
+
+
+
+Beta Release 0.1.16 (21 April, 2011)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Notable changes in samtools:
+
+ * Support the new SAM/BAM type `B' in the latest SAM spec v1.4.
+
+ * When the output file of `samtools merge' exists, do not overwrite it unless
+ a new command-line option `-f' is applied.
+
+ * Bugfix: BED support is not working when the input BED is not sorted.
+
+ * Bugfix: some reads without coordinates but given on the reverse strand are
+ lost in merging.
+
+Notable changes in bcftools:
+
+ * Code cleanup: separated max-likelihood inference and Bayesian inference.
+
+ * Test Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium with a likelihood-ratio test.
+
+ * Provided another association test P-value by likelihood-ratio test.
+
+ * Use Brent's method to estimate the site allele frequency when EM converges
+ slowly. The resulting ML estimate of allele frequnecy is more accurate.
+
+ * Added the `ldpair' command, which computes r^2 between SNP pairs given in
+ an input file.
+
+Also, the `pileup' command, which has been deprecated by `mpileup' since
+version 0.1.10, will be dropped in the next release. The old `pileup' command
+is substandard and causing a lot of confusion.
+
+(0.1.16: 21 April 2011, r963:234)
+
+
+
+Beta Release 0.1.15 (10 April, 2011)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Noteable changes:
+
+ * Allow to perform variant calling or to extract information in multiple
+ regions specified by a BED file (`samtools mpileup -l', `samtools view -L'
+ and `bcftools view -l').
+
+ * Added the `depth' command to samtools to compute the per-base depth with a
+ simpler interface. File `bam2depth.c', which implements this command, is the
+ recommended example on how to use the mpileup APIs.
+
+ * Estimate genotype frequencies with ML; perform chi^2 based Hardy-Weinberg
+ test using this estimate.
+
+ * For `samtools view', when `-R' is specified, drop read groups in the header
+ that are not contained in the specified file.
+
+ * For `samtools flagstat', separate QC-pass and QC-fail reads.
+
+ * Improved the command line help of `samtools mpileup' and `bcftools view'.
+
+ * Use a global variable to control the verbose level of samtools stderr
+ output. Nonetheless, it has not been full utilized.
+
+ * Fixed an issue in association test which may report false associations,
+ possibly due to floating point underflow.
+
+(0.1.15: 10 April 2011, r949:203)
+
+
+
+Beta release 0.1.14 (21 March, 2011)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+This release implements a method for testing associations for case-control
+data. The method does not call genotypes but instead sums over all genotype
+configurations to compute a chi^2 based test statistics. It can be potentially
+applied to comparing a pair of samples (e.g. a tumor-normal pair), but this
+has not been evaluated on real data.
+
+Another new feature is to make X chromosome variant calls when female and male
+samples are both present. The user needs to provide a file indicating the
+ploidy of each sample (see also manual bcftools/bcftools.1).
+
+Other notable changes:
+
+ * Added `bcftools view -F' to parse BCF files generated by samtools r921 or
+ older which encodes PL in a different way.
+
+ * Changed the behavior of `bcftools view -s'. Now when a list of samples is
+ provided, the samples in the output will be reordered to match the ordering
+ in the sample list. This change is mainly designed for association test.
+
+ * Sped up `bcftools view -v' for target sequencing given thousands of samples.
+ Also added a new option `view -d' to skip loci where only a few samples are
+ covered by reads.
+
+ * Dropped HWE test. This feature has never been implemented properly. An EM
+ should be much better. To be implemented in future.
+
+ * Added the `cat' command to samtools. This command concatenate BAMs with
+ identical sequence dictionaries in an efficient way. Modified from bam_cat.c
+ written by Chris Saunders.
+
+ * Added `samtools view -1' to write BAMs at a low compression level but twice
+ faster to create. The `sort' command generates temporary files at a low
+ compression level as well.
+
+ * Added `samtools mpileup -6' to accept "BAM" with Illumina 1.3+ quality
+ strings (strictly speaking, such a file is not BAM).
+
+ * Added `samtools mpileup -L' to skip INDEL calling in regions with
+ excessively high coverage. Such regions dramatically slow down mpileup.
+
+ * Updated `misc/export2sam.pl', provided by Chris Saunders from Illumina Inc.
+
+(0.1.14: 21 March 2011, r933:170)
+
+
+
+Beta release 0.1.13 (1 March, 2011)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The most important though largely invisible modification is the change of the
+order of genotypes in the PL VCF/BCF tag. This is to conform the upcoming VCF
+spec v4.1. The change means that 0.1.13 is not backward compatible with VCF/BCF
+generated by samtools older than r921 inclusive. VCF/BCF generated by the new
+samtools will contain a line `##fileformat=VCFv4.1' as well as the samtools
+version number.
+
+Single Individual Haplotyping (SIH) is added as an experimental feature. It
+originally aims to produce haploid consensus from fosmid pool sequencing, but
+also works with short-read data. For short reads, phased blocks are usually too
+short to be useful in many applications, but they can help to rule out part of
+SNPs close to INDELs or between copies of CNVs.
+
+
+Other notable changes in samtools:
+
+ * Construct per-sample consensus to reduce the effect of nearby SNPs in INDEL
+ calling. This reduces the power but improves specificity.
+
+ * Improved sorting order checking in indexing. Now indexing is the preferred way
+ to check if a BAM is sorted.
+
+ * Added a switch `-E' to mpileup and calmd. This option uses an alternative way
+ to apply BAQ, which increases sensistivity, especially to MNPs, at the cost of
+ a little loss in specificity.
+
+ * Added `mpileup -A' to allow to use reads in anomalous pairs in SNP calling.
+
+ * Added `mpileup -m' to allow fine control of the collection of INDEL candidates.
+
+ * Added `mpileup -S' to compute per-sample strand bias P-value.
+
+ * Added `mpileup -G' to exclude read groups in variant calling.
+
+ * Fixed segfault in indel calling related to unmapped and refskip reads.
+
+ * Fixed an integer overflow in INDEL calling. This bug produces wrong INDEL
+ genotypes for longer short INDELs, typically over 10bp.
+
+ * Fixed a bug in tview on big-endian machines.
+
+ * Fixed a very rare memory issue in bam_md.c
+
+ * Fixed an out-of-boundary bug in mpileup when the read base is `N'.
+
+ * Fixed a compiling error when the knetfile library is not used. Fixed a
+ library compiling error due to the lack of bam_nt16_nt4_table[] table.
+ Suppress a compiling warning related to the latest zlib.
+
+
+Other notable changes in bcftools:
+
+ * Updated the BCF spec.
+
+ * Added the `FQ' VCF INFO field, which gives the phred-scaled probability
+ of all samples being the same (identical to the reference or all homozygous
+ variants). Option `view -f' has been dropped.
+
+ * Implementated of "vcfutils.pl vcf2fq" to generate a consensus sequence
+ similar to "samtools.pl pileup2fq".
+
+ * Make sure the GT FORMAT field is always the first FORMAT to conform the VCF
+ spec. Drop bcf-fix.pl.
+
+ * Output bcftools specific INFO and FORMAT in the VCF header.
+
+ * Added `view -s' to call variants from a subset of samples.
+
+ * Properly convert VCF to BCF with a user provided sequence dictionary. Nonetheless,
+ custom fields are still unparsed and will be stored as a missing value.
+
+ * Fixed a minor bug in Fisher's exact test; the results are rarely changed.
+
+
+(0.1.13: 1 March 2011, r926:134)
+
+
+
+Beta release 0.1.12a (2 December, 2010)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+This is another bug fix release:
+
+ * Fixed a memory violation in mpileup, which causes segfault. Release
+ 0.1.9 and above are affected.
+
+ * Fixed a memory violation in the indel caller, which does not causes
+ segfault, but may potentially affect deletion calls in an unexpected
+ way. Release 0.1.10 and above are affected.
+
+ * Fixed a bug in computing r-square in bcftools. Few are using this
+ functionality and it only has minor effect.
+
+ * Fixed a memory leak in bam_fetch().
+
+ * Fixed a bug in writing meta information to the BAM index for the last
+ sequence. This bug is invisible to most users, but it is a bug anyway.
+
+ * Fixed a bug in bcftools which causes false "DP4=0,0,0,0" annotations.
+
+(0.1.12: 2 December 2010, r862)
+
+
+
+Beta release 0.1.11 (21 November, 2010)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+This is mainly a bug fix release:
+
+ * Fixed a bug in random retrieval (since 0.1.8). It occurs when reads
+ are retrieved from a small region containing no reads.
+
+ * Fixed a bug in pileup (since 0.1.9). The bug causes an assertion
+ failure when the first CIGAR operation is a deletion.
+
+ * Improved fault tolerence in remote access.
+
+One minor feature has been implemented in bcftools:
+
+ * Added a reference-free variant calling mode. In this mode, a site is
+ regarded as a variat iff the sample(s) contains two or more alleles;
+ the meaning of the QUAL field in the VCF output is changed
+ accordingly. Effectively, the reference allele is irrelevant to the
+ result in the new mode, although the reference sequence has to be
+ used in realignment when SAMtools computes genotype likelihoods.
+
+In addition, since 0.1.10, the `pileup' command has been deprecated by
+`mpileup' which is more powerful and more accurate. The `pileup' command
+will not be removed in the next few releases, but new features will not
+be added.
+
+(0.1.11: 21 November 2010, r851)
+
+
+
+Beta Release 0.1.10 (16 November, 2010)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+This release is featured as the first major improvement to the indel
+caller. The method is similar to the old one implemented in the pileup
+command, but the details are handled more carefully both in theory and
+in practice. As a result, the new indel caller usually gives more
+accurate indel calls, though at the cost of sensitivity. The caller is
+implemented in the mpileup command and is invoked by default. It works
+with multiple samples.
+
+Other notable changes:
+
+ * With the -r option, the calmd command writes the difference between
+ the original base quality and the BAQ capped base quality at the BQ
+ tag but does not modify the base quality. Please use -Ar to overwrite
+ the original base quality (the 0.1.9 behavior).
+
+ * Allow to set a maximum per-sample read depth to reduce memory. In
+ 0.1.9, most of memory is wasted for the ultra high read depth in some
+ regions (e.g. the chr1 centromere).
+
+ * Optionally write per-sample read depth and per-sample strand bias
+ P-value.
+
+ * Compute equal-tail (Bayesian) credible interval of site allele
+ frequency at the CI95 VCF annotation.
+
+ * Merged the vcfutils.pl varFilter and filter4vcf for better SNP/indel
+ filtering.
+
+(0.1.10: 16 November 2010, r829)
+
+
+
+Beta Release 0.1.9 (27 October, 2010)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+This release is featured as the first major improvement to the samtools'
+SNP caller. It comes with a revised MAQ error model, the support of
+multi-sample SNP calling and the computation of base alignment quality
+(BAQ).
+
+The revised MAQ error model is based on the original model. It solves an
+issue of miscalling SNPs in repetitive regions. Althought such SNPs can
+usually be filtered at a later step, they mess up unfiltered calls. This
+is a theoretical flaw in the original model. The revised MAQ model
+deprecates the orginal MAQ model and the simplified SOAPsnp model.
+
+Multi-sample SNP calling is separated in two steps. The first is done by
+samtools mpileup and the second by a new program, bcftools, which is
+included in the samtools source code tree. Multi-sample SNP calling also
+works for single sample and has the advantage of enabling more powerful
+filtration. It is likely to deprecate pileup in future once a proper
+indel calling method is implemented.
+
+BAQ is the Phred-scaled probability of a read base being wrongly
+aligned. Capping base quality by BAQ has been shown to be very effective
+in suppressing false SNPs caused by misalignments around indels or in
+low-complexity regions with acceptable compromise on computation
+time. This strategy is highly recommended and can be used with other SNP
+callers as well.
+
+In addition to the three major improvements, other notable changes are:
+
+ * Changes to the pileup format. A reference skip (the N CIGAR operator)
+ is shown as '<' or '>' depending on the strand. Tview is also changed
+ accordingly.
+
+ * Accelerated pileup. The plain pileup is about 50% faster.
+
+ * Regional merge. The merge command now accepts a new option to merge
+ files in a specified region.
+
+ * Fixed a bug in bgzip and razip which causes source files to be
+ deleted even if option -c is applied.
+
+ * In APIs, propogate errors to downstream callers and make samtools
+ return non-zero values once errors occur.
+
+(0.1.9: 27 October 2010, r783)
+
+
+
+Beta Release 0.1.8 (11 July, 2010)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Notable functional changes:
+
+ * Added the `reheader' command which replaces a BAM header with a new
+ header. This command is much faster than replacing header by
+ BAM->SAM->BAM conversions.
+
+ * Added the `mpileup' command which computes the pileup of multiple
+ alignments.
+
+ * The `index' command now stores the number of mapped and unmapped
+ reads in the index file. This information can be retrieved quickly by
+ the new `idxstats' command.
+
+ * By default, pileup used the SOAPsnp model for SNP calling. This
+ avoids the floating overflow in the MAQ model which leads to spurious
+ calls in repetitive regions, although these calls will be immediately
+ filtered by varFilter.
+
+ * The `tview' command now correctly handles CIGARs like 7I10M and
+ 10M1P1I10M which cause assertion failure in earlier versions.
+
+ * Tview accepts a region like `=10,000' where `=' stands for the
+ current sequence name. This saves typing for long sequence names.
+
+ * Added the `-d' option to `pileup' which avoids slow indel calling
+ in ultradeep regions by subsampling reads locally.
+
+ * Added the `-R' option to `view' which retrieves alignments in read
+ groups listed in the specified file.
+
+Performance improvements:
+
+ * The BAM->SAM conversion is up to twice faster, depending on the
+ characteristic of the input.
+
+ * Parsing SAM headers with a lot of reference sequences is now much
+ faster.
+
+ * The number of lseek() calls per query is reduced when the query
+ region contains no read alignments.
+
+Bug fixes:
+
+ * Fixed an issue in the indel caller that leads to miscall of indels.
+ Note that this solution may not work well when the sequencing indel
+ error rate is higher than the rate of SNPs.
+
+ * Fixed another issue in the indel caller which may lead to incorrect
+ genotype.
+
+ * Fixed a bug in `sort' when option `-o' is applied.
+
+ * Fixed a bug in `view -r'.
+
+APIs and other changes:
+
+ * Added iterator interfaces to random access and pileup. The callback
+ interfaces directly call the iterator interfaces.
+
+ * The BGZF blocks holding the BAM header are indepedent of alignment
+ BGZF blocks. Alignment records shorter than 64kB is guaranteed to be
+ fully contained in one BGZF block. This change is fully compatible
+ with the old version of samtools/picard.
+
+Changes in other utilities:
+
+ * Updated export2sam.pl by Chris Saunders.
+
+ * Improved the sam2vcf.pl script.
+
+ * Added a Python version of varfilter.py by Aylwyn Scally.
+
+(0.1.8: 11 July 2010, r613)
+
+
+
+Beta Release 0.1.7 (10 November, 2009)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Notable changes:
+
+ * Improved the indel caller in complex scenariors, in particular for
+ long reads. The indel caller is now able to make reasonable indel
+ calls from Craig Venter capillary reads.
+
+ * Rewrote single-end duplicate removal with improved
+ performance. Paired-end reads are not touched.
+
+ * Duplicate removal is now library aware. Samtools remove potential
+ PCR/optical dupliates inside a library rather than across libraries.
+
+ * SAM header is now fully parsed, although this functionality is not
+ used in merging and so on.
+
+ * In samtools merge, optionally take the input file name as RG-ID and
+ attach the RG tag to each alignment.
+
+ * Added FTP support in the RAZF library. RAZF-compressed reference
+ sequence can be retrieved remotely.
+
+ * Improved network support for Win32.
+
+ * Samtools sort and merge are now stable.
+
+Changes in other utilities:
+
+ * Implemented sam2vcf.pl that converts the pileup format to the VCF
+ format.
+
+ * This release of samtools is known to work with the latest
+ Bio-Samtools Perl module.
+
+(0.1.7: 10 November 2009, r510)
+
+
+
Beta Release 0.1.6 (2 September, 2009)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The is the first public release of samtools. For more information,
please check the manual page `samtools.1' and the samtools website
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