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  • froggins
    Junior Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 4

    #1

    Error message from QC metrics

    I have realigned, recalibrated BAM files on which I am trying to run final QC metrics. I have tried running HS metrics and AlignmentSumaryMetrics and I get the following error messages.

    1. CalculateHSMetrics - "Sequence dictionaries are not the same size (0, 25)"
    Does this refer to the difference between my reference file and BMA file? Do I need to create a BAM Sequence dictionary for my reference file (in fasta format)?

    [Wed Jan 05 11:06:13 GMT 2011] net.sf.picard.analysis.directed.CalculateHsMetrics done.
    Runtime.totalMemory()=2058027008
    Exception in thread "main" net.sf.samtools.util.SequenceUtil$SequenceListsDifferException: Sequence dictionaries are not the same size (0, 25)
    at net.sf.samtools.util.SequenceUtil.assertSequenceListsEqual(SequenceUtil.java:76)
    at net.sf.samtools.util.SequenceUtil.assertSequenceDictionariesEqual(SequenceUtil.java:118)
    at net.sf.picard.analysis.directed.CalculateHsMetrics.doWork(CalculateHsMetrics.java:87)
    at net.sf.picard.cmdline.CommandLineProgram.instanceMain(CommandLineProgram.java:156)
    at net.sf.picard.analysis.directed.CalculateHsMetrics.main(CalculateHsMetrics.java:68)


    2. Alignment Summary Metrics - myfile.bam has no sequence dictionary
    Again, does this mean that I need to make a separate sequence dictionary associated with myfile.bam? Presumably this is the source of the error above. Is it possible to generate a sequence dictionary from a bam file with Picard? It also says "If any reads in the file are aligned then alignment summary metrics collection will fail" (which I found confusing because I thought that the file was supposed to be aligned).


    WARNING 2011-01-05 11:36:59 CollectAlignmentSummaryMetrics myfile.bam has no sequence dictionary. If any reads in the file are aligned then alignment summary metrics collection will fail.
    [Wed Jan 05 11:37:00 GMT 2011] net.sf.picard.analysis.CollectAlignmentSummaryMetrics done.
    Runtime.totalMemory()=2058027008


    I am sorry if these are really simple questions - I am totally new to all of these programs. I have tried searching through previous help questions on samtools and here . Part of the problem is that I can't work out exactly what a "sequence dictionary" is (other than a header file - which I am sure is so obvious that it doesn't require explaining!)

    If anyone can help I would be very appreciative!

    Thanks.
  • pmiguel
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2008
    • 2328

    #2
    Hi froggins,
    This is a forum for new (not commercially released) sequencing platforms. Much more chance of you getting a useful answer were you to post to the bioinformatics forum:

    Discussion of next-gen sequencing related bioinformatics: resources, algorithms, open source efforts, etc


    Good luck,
    --
    Phillip

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