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fix(archaic): keep the SNV call when an insertion sits at the same position, and measure what the ancient panel really needs - #264

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Problem

Step 43 reads your VCF one position at a time. When a VCF holds two records at one position, as bcftools norm -m- writes a split site, the last record won. An insertion written after an SNV turned your SNV call into "unknown", so IBDmix lost a site you really carry.

Step 43 had also only ever run on a 10 Mb slice of chr22, and step 44's install of the full AADR panel had never run end to end. Their memory, disk and time figures in the docs were estimates, and step 44 was missing from the shared docs.

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  • bin/archaic_report.py genotypes: at a position given twice, the SNV is kept beside an insertion or a multi-allelic record, in either order. Two different SNVs at one position are unknown (9), like the table's own rule for a split 1000 Genomes site. One SNV given twice with two different usable codes is unknown too, so the result never depends on the record order. The code sits below the table stamp, so no installed table is rebuilt.
  • .github/workflows/public-evidence.yml, a new workflow on GitHub-hosted runners, public data only. It is not a gate, and it runs by hand only (workflow_dispatch). While this PR was open it also ran on pushes to its branch; that trigger is gone, so no later push starts its 26 jobs and 150 GB of downloads.
    • archaic-hg002 runs setup.sh --archaic and step 43 on GIAB's HG002 v4.2.1 genotypes, one job per autosome. archaic-share joins them into one report per population (1000 Genomes ALL and EUR), and counts the HG002 positions where an SNV and another record sit together, as GIAB writes the VCF and split.
    • The job empty gets an empty region list and must fail. That is the red control.
    • ancient-footprint runs setup.sh --ancient-panel on the full AADR 1240K files, then step 44 on HG002. It reports the peak memory of the containers, the peak disk growth and the time. Step 44 reads a gVCF, so the job builds one from GIAB's genotypes plus a one-base reference block at each panel site inside GIAB's benchmark regions.
  • Docs: step 44 in nextflow.md, 00-reference-setup.md, interpreting-results.md, testing.md and hardware-requirements.md. The measured numbers replace the estimates in 43-archaic.md and 44-ancient.md.

What the runs measured

On a GitHub runner with 4 CPUs and 16 GB of RAM:

  • AADR install: 61 minutes. The highest anonymous memory of any setup container (convertf or smartpca; the sampler does not record which) was 7.6 GiB. The largest container's whole charge, file cache included, reached 11.6 of its 12 GiB limit, with no swap. Disk grew by 9.6 GiB at the peak; the panel keeps 1.05 GiB.
  • Step 44 on HG002: 7 minutes, 1.2 GiB, 1,133,951 of the panel's 1,150,106 GRCh38 sites used.
  • Archaic install: 150.5 GB of downloads, 13.8 GB for chromosome 2 alone. Building the table took 3 h 15 min summed over the 22 chromosomes. Step 43 took 18 minutes summed per population.
  • HG002's Neanderthal share: 4.13% (ALL) and 4.26% (EUR). Denisovan: 0.40% and 0.42%. That is 115.2 Mb, about twice the roughly 51 Mb per European that Chen et al. report with the same method and cutoffs. The cause is not yet known. 43-archaic.md says so, and tells you to compare shares from this step with each other, not with published figures. Finding the cause is left as a follow-up.
  • Positions where HG002 has an SNV and another record: none in GIAB's VCF as written, 3,198 once split, 694 of them table sites. So the fix matters for a VCF that was split before step 43, and not for one with multi-allelic records.

How it was checked

  • tests/test_archaic_report.py has a split VCF with an SNV beside an insertion (both orders), beside a multi-allelic record, and two SNVs at one position. On the code of origin/main four genotype checks fail (an insertion after the SNV gives 9, two carried SNVs give 1, a 0/0 half after the SNV and two 0/0 halves are left out), and the pick_call check cannot run there, because main has no pick_call. With the fix all checks pass. The new either-order pair (one SNV as 0/1 and as 1/1) gives 1 and 2 on the previous head's pick_call and 9 in both orders now.

  • Public evidence run, all 26 jobs green: https://github.com/GeiserX/OwnGenome/actions/runs/41621716972

  • The docs commits after that run change only docs and one workflow comment. The new run they started was cancelled, because the measured code is unchanged. The last round changes pick_call only for one SNV given twice with two usable codes, which bcftools norm -m- does not write, so the measured run stands.

  • The archaic-share job summary no longer says whether the share falls inside the published 1-2%. It says to compare the share only with other shares from this step, as 43-archaic.md does.

Beads: closes pgp-sejl. pgp-bgr1 is partly done: the SNV fix and the whole-genome run are done, but its sanity check failed (4.13% against the published 1-2%), so it stays open for the share gap.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Calls at repeated genomic positions are now reconciled consistently, preserving usable SNV calls alongside split or filtered records and marking unresolved conflicts as unknown.
  • Documentation

    • Added benchmark results and resource guidance for archaic and ancient-reference analysis, including runtime, memory, disk use, and output coverage.
    • Expanded guidance for the optional ancient-population results, including how to interpret rankings and PCA plots, and documented its setup and Nextflow options.
    • Documented a manually triggered, read-only workflow that reports public benchmark measurements and validation results.

…sition

A VCF split with bcftools norm -m- can hold an SNV and an insertion (or a
multi-allelic record) at one position. Step 43 kept whichever came last, so
an insertion after the SNV turned the call into "unknown". The SNV now wins
in either order, and two different SNVs at one position are unknown.

Bead: pgp-bgr1
A new dispatch workflow (also run on a branch push that changes it or
bin/archaic_report.py) runs on GitHub-hosted runners and public data only.
archaic-hg002 builds the archaic table in four parts and runs step 43 on
GIAB's HG002 genotypes; archaic-share joins the parts and prints HG002's
shares and the positions the SNV-over-insertion fix touches. An empty region
list is the red control and must fail. ancient-footprint installs the full
AADR panel and runs step 44, with the peak container memory, disk and time.

Bead: pgp-bgr1
Bead: pgp-sejl
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The pull request adds a manually dispatched workflow that measures archaic and ancient-panel processing with public data. It changes how repeated VCF calls at one position are reconciled, adds tests for those cases, and updates documentation with resource measurements and result interpretation.

Changes: Public Evidence and Genotype Resolution

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Resolve genotypes across records
bin/archaic_report.py, tests/test_archaic_report.py
pick_call reconciles calls at repeated positions. Unresolved conflicts become unknown code 9. Tests cover split-VCF cases and call-order independence.
Run and aggregate archaic evidence
.github/workflows/public-evidence.yml, docs/43-archaic.md, docs/testing.md
The workflow downloads and verifies shared sites data, runs step 43 for autosomes and populations, checks results, and aggregates reports. It includes an empty-region control. Documentation reports benchmark results and describes workflow checks.
Measure ancient-panel processing
.github/workflows/public-evidence.yml, docs/00-reference-setup.md, docs/44-ancient.md, docs/hardware-requirements.md, docs/interpreting-results.md, docs/nextflow.md
The workflow measures panel setup and step 44, builds an HG002 gVCF with eligible reference blocks, and reports resource use and site coverage. Documentation describes setup, requirements, outputs, benchmark results, and interpretation.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

  • GeiserX/OwnGenome#260: Caches the 1000 Genomes sites VCF and changes how archaic setup reuses that file; this PR also measures the archaic workflow that downloads and uses the sites VCF.
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Mergeable with awareness of the deferred duplicate-record edge cases and timing-attribution limitation. Unusual repeated VCF records can still produce order-dependent calls; failed prefetches can distort benchmark timing without changing verified analysis results.

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bcftools norm -m- writes a 0/1 at A>G,T as A>G 0/1 and A>T 0/0. The
same-position rule took that as two different SNVs and made the site
unknown. pick_call now keeps the record that carries its ALT, lets a usable
record of the same SNV win over a filtered one, and reads two 0/0 halves as
the reference, in either order.

Bead: pgp-bgr1
…e control fails

Each part counted the same-position records of the whole VCF, so the joined
total was four times too high, and two SNVs at one position were not
counted. The red control now also requires the empty-region message, and
the disk figure is named for what df measures.

Bead: pgp-bgr1
…ched side by side

The archaic files come from one server at a few MB/s per connection, so
four parts of about 40 GB each would not finish inside a job's six hours.
Each autosome now runs in its own job (eight at a time), fetches its three
files in parallel under the names setup.sh resumes, and takes the 1000
Genomes sites file from one shared job instead of downloading it 22 times.

Bead: pgp-bgr1
The first full run put the panel install's cgroup peak at 11.7 GiB of its
12 GiB limit. memory.peak counts the file cache of the 7.1 GB genotype file,
which the kernel drops before it kills a task, so it overstates what
smartpca holds. The sampler now also records the anonymous memory from
memory.stat and the container's memory.max.

Bead: pgp-sejl
…ry, disk and time

The AADR install and step 44 ran whole on public HG002 in the
ancient-footprint job of public-evidence.yml (run 41621716972), so the
docs give what that run measured in place of the estimates.

Bead: pgp-sejl
The whole-genome run of step 43 on public HG002 (run 41621716972)
downloaded 150 GB, not 165, and chromosome 2 alone is 13.8 GB. HG002's
Neanderthal share came out at 4.1 to 4.3%, about twice the quoted 2%:
the step counts a stretch on either copy, the quoted figure is of one
copy. The page now says so.

Bead: pgp-bgr1
# Conflicts:
#	docs/hardware-requirements.md
… the docs to what was measured

The archaic share gap against Chen et al. is stated as not yet explained.
public-evidence runs by hand only, and its sampler no longer stops quietly
when a container exits between reads. The panel's disk and memory figures
say what the sampler measured.
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…ary, and give the AADR download size again

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e2e on da91f7a (run https://github.com/GeiserX/OwnGenome/actions/runs/41673797014) failed in cases this PR does not touch: callability-1-catalog, callability-2-genes and paralog-catalog-1-gba. They come from main as merged after #266 and #269 (the rebuilt callability catalog differs from assets/callability_genes.tsv, and the module loop calls copy_number.py, which is not on the path there). The archaic-ancestry-1 case did not finish: the uncached 1000 Genomes sites download ran at about 46 kB/s until the job timeout. The e2e run on 0a7867e was cancelled, since it would fail the same way. It will be rerun once main is fixed.

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tests/test_archaic_report.py: 1

161-175: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value

Add a fixture for a filtered SNV paired with a PASS 0/0 record.

The split-VCF fixture pairs a filtered SNV only with a usable 1/1 call at 7000. The order checks pair code 9 with code 0 only at a different ALT. A regression that keeps code 9 over a usable 0/0 duplicate of the same SNV would pass these checks. The current code already writes 0 for this case. The new assertion guards against a future regression.

Suggested test addition
       "chr22\t8000\t.\tT\tA\t50\tPASS\t.\tGT\t0/0\n"         # two 0/0 halves: the reference
-      "chr22\t8000\t.\tT\tG\t50\tPASS\t.\tGT\t0/0\n")
+      "chr22\t8000\t.\tT\tG\t50\tPASS\t.\tGT\t0/0\n"
+      "chr22\t9000\t.\tA\tC\t50\tLowQual\t.\tGT\t0/1\n"      # the same SNV, filtered, then the 0/0 half
+      "chr22\t9000\t.\tA\tC\t50\tPASS\t.\tGT\t0/0\n")
 check("a usable record of the same SNV wins over a filtered one", code3(7000) == "2", g3.get(7000))
+check("a usable 0/0 record wins over a filtered one at the same SNV", code3(9000) == "0", g3.get(9000))
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Review comment at @tests/test_archaic_report.py around lines 161 - 175:
Extend the split-VCF fixture with a filtered SNV followed by a PASS 0/0 record
for the same SNV, then assert that `code3` returns 0 at that position. Keep the
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- Around line 161-175: Extend the split-VCF fixture with a filtered SNV followed
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