Warning if not human genome

[AlistairNWard]

Users have emailed with problems using bam, only to find out that they are using e.g. bacterial bam files. If we are really requiring users to have human genomes, could we perform a quick check to see if the reference sequences are definitely not human, and then provide an error explaining that they need human genomes?

[anderspitman]

How much better would it be to support nonhuman?

[AlistairNWard]

It would definitely be better. We've discussed it before, but nobody is going to have the time to do it! The person who recently emailed had a c. elegans genome, so not a ridiculous genome to be working on! The bam he shared also only had 2 reads, so really the non-human aspect wasn't the only problem!