utility to convert coordinates of variants in VCF files between different genome builds.
Install via pip:
pip install vcfremapper
vcfremapper PATH_TO_VCF CONVERTED --reference genome.fa
# or pass output to bgzip
vcfremapper PATH_TO_VCF --reference genome.fa | bgzip > CONVERTED
# or pipe in gzipped data
cat PATH_TO_VCF | vcfremapper --reference genome.fa | bgzip > CONVERTED
Options:
--reference
- path to reference genome, for the build being converted to.--build-in
- build to convert from, defaults to hg19--build-out
- build to convert to, defaults to hg38--tempdir
- folder to save uncompressed temp file in before sorting