[Vcftools-help] vcf-annotate

[Rachel H. <ha...@so...>]

I am using the vcf-annotate tool and I am using a command similar to the 
one suggested on the VCF tools project website:
cat in.vcf | vcf-annotate -a annotations.gz \
    -d key=INFO,ID=ANN,Number=1,Type=Integer,Description='My custom 
annotation' > out.vcf

I get this error:
No ID in description? 
[key=INFO,ID=ANN,Number=1,Type=String,Description=My custom annotation]
  at ./vcf-annotate line 20
     main::error('No ID in description? 
[key=INFO,ID=ANN,Number=1,Type=String,D...') called at ./vcf-annotate 
line 66
     main::annotate('HASH(0x76e4220)') called at ./vcf-annotate line 11

When I looked at the vcf-annotate perl script, it looks like it is 
parsing the description string given to the -d option splitting on ";" 
but the items in this string are comma-separated. If I change the code 
to split on commas, I still get errors. How can I get this to work?

Thanks.
Rachel