[v4.0] half of standalone tools disappeared

[tj_tsai]

Hi there,

I’m an engineer maintaining Parabricks images in our customers’ cloud infrastructure. I am studying the differences between v3.8 and v4.0, and I found that half of the standalone tools disappeared from v3.8 to v4.0, such as cnvkit, vcfqc, muse etc. in v3.8. Are these tools no longer supported, and should we tell our customers to use old Parabricks (with license server)?

[SHEN_Lishuang]

I saw somewhere mentioned by the NVIDIA team that they would focus on fewer core tools since v.4. I think this is good for keeping timely porting and implementation of core tools. Yet, I hope the NVIDIA team can make the “legacy” tools continuously available in a release that is not requiring the license setting as they were in the previous v.3.8 release.