X-Git-Url: http://woldlab.caltech.edu/gitweb/?p=samtools.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=946ba7b4e98d584081b846105bde5f438f6e3ba1;hp=8455b484a0ce46bac6ca004e8ef2e2fb6e8239cf;hb=ced7709f121a00d5049d99ee8576037994aab1d1;hpb=1539c893f863596db71ab2af75a802e935496940 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8455b48..946ba7b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,28 @@ +Beta release 0.1.14 (16 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. + +Other new features: + + * Added `samtools mpileup -L' to skip INDEL calling in regions with + excessively high coverage. Such regions dramatically slow down mpileup. + + * Added `bcftools view -F' to parse BCF files generated by samtools r921 or + older which encode PL in a different way. + +(0.1.14: 16 March 2011, r930:163) + + + Beta release 0.1.13 (1 March, 2011) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -56,7 +81,7 @@ 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 samei (identical to the reference or all homozygous + 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