Consensus sequence
Sometimes there is the need to create a consensus sequence for an individual
where the sequence incorporates variants typed for this individual.
This is possible using the consensus command.
We need the reference sequence reference.fa in the fasta format
and an indexed VCF with the variants calls.bcf. The command is:
cat reference.fa | bcftools consensus calls.vcf.gz > consensus.fa
This assumes we have already made the calls. There is another page which goes deeper and is devoted just to this, but in brief, the variant calling command in its simplest form is:
bcftools mpileup -Ou -f reference.fa alignments.bam | bcftools call -mv -Oz -o calls.vcf.gz tabix calls.vcf.gz
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