[BioC] VariantAnnotation: readVcf on nonmodel organism

[Yannick Wurm]

Dear list,

I work with a non-model organism (an ant) for which we sequenced the genome. The genome is on NCBI but isn't annotated in the standard R-accessible databases. 

I'm now trying to load a VCF file into R (with the aim of subsequent plotting with ggbio). 

> library(VariantAnnotation)
> readVcf("mymappings.vcf.gz")

This fails because readVcf wants a "genome" argument. I haven't been able to find an example using a non-established genome. How can I generate such a genome for my species? The genome is in the form of 10,000 scaffolds. I'm looking for a quick hack, not a complex submission to another database. 

FWIW This is on R 2.15.0 with latest bioconductor.

Thanks for your help & kind regards,

Yannick





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