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Dear GATK Team,

I am running a pipeline on several high coverage human individuals that have been mapped using bwa and processed using samtools, picard and gatk. The bam-files pass ValidateSam from picard, but when I run the bqsr step some of them fails giving a Malformed read error (using -filterMBQ does not help in this case). I tracked down the error to bamfiles that ends with a paired end read where the mate maps in the beginning of the contig (in my case human mtDNA).

Eg, this will make it crash:

readX 177 MT 16558 37 7S2M2I10M80S = 294 -16176 GACCTGTGATCC...
readY 177 MT 16558 37 7S2M2I10M80S = 238 -16232 GACCTGTGATCC...
readZ 113 MT 16558 37 7S2M2I10M80S = 273 -16197 GACCTGTGATCC...
[END]

where a file ending like this wont crash:

readX 83 MT 16469 60 101M = 16246 -324 TGGGGGTAGCTAAAGTGAAC...
readY 147 MT 16469 60 101M = 16267 -303 TGGGGGTAGCTAAAGTGA...
readZ 147 MT 16469 60 101M = 16193 -377 TGGGGGTAGCTAAAGTGAAC...
[END]

I am running GATK v2.3-9-ge5ebf34, but the same error occurs using GATK v-2.2-3 (my previous version). I can genotype the files using UnifiedGenotyper without any problem as well.

This is the error:

ERROR ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ERROR stack trace

org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.exceptions.ReviewedStingException: Array length mismatch detected. Malformed read? at org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.walkers.bqsr.BaseRecalibrator.calculateFractionalErrorArray(BaseRecalibrator.java:380) at org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.walkers.bqsr.BaseRecalibrator.map(BaseRecalibrator.java:246) at org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.walkers.bqsr.BaseRecalibrator.map(BaseRecalibrator.java:112) at org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.traversals.TraverseReadsNano$TraverseReadsMap.apply(TraverseReadsNano.java:203) at org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.traversals.TraverseReadsNano$TraverseReadsMap.apply(TraverseReadsNano.java:191) at org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.nanoScheduler.NanoScheduler$MapReduceJob.run(NanoScheduler.java:468) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

ERROR ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ERROR A GATK RUNTIME ERROR has occurred (version 2.3-9-ge5ebf34):

ERROR

ERROR Please visit the wiki to see if this is a known problem

ERROR If not, please post the error, with stack trace, to the GATK forum

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ERROR commonly asked questions http://www.broadinstitute.org/gatk

ERROR

ERROR MESSAGE: Array length mismatch detected. Malformed read?

ERROR ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Cheers,

Simon

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