And a conceptual question: is there any reason why a pangenomics VCF (e.g. from this study) wouldn't work well as a known sites file for BQSR?
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Maxime Garcia
03/19/2026, 8:51 AM
So if I remember well from a collaboration I did with some bees people, more or less yeah
Maxime Garcia
03/19/2026, 8:53 AM
Basically to get a good known sites file, you do preprocessing and basic variant calling on a hundred of samples, and you use the resulting vcf as a known site, and you boostrap until the results are stable enough