sweed4.0 can't recognize "*" in ALT in vcf file

[wqy399]

Hi!
Sweed does help me a lot for selective sweep analysis.
I have a question about the inputted vcf file. When I use the vcf file (version4.2) where there is * in "ALT" column, A, * for example, sweed4.0 can not recognize it. So I deleted all rows containing * and it worked well. I wonder whether my deletion would have large effects on the final results and why * can't be recognized by Sweed.
Thanks!

[alachins]

It's not recognized because the VCF parser is not implemented to handle it. SweeD recognizes and parses rows that describe SNPs. Could you send me ([email protected]) a small part of your VCF file that includes some rows with "*" in the ALT column so that I can fix the parser accordingly?