A post-pipeline validation which used to compare the results of the unifiedgenotyper against a control VCF as a final QC.
The VCF comparison has be discontinued at 25-04-2025 in favor of an Amber-based check by the medical team.
The snpcheck service is still required in the current infrastructure because it acts as a filter for pipeline events. It ensures that only somatic and single-sample pipeline runs without failures get status "validated" and are processed by downstream services.