v2 methylation QC validated on minfiDataEPIC and against sesame (K-026)

beta r 0.99998 vs sesame 1.28.1 (max |dbeta| 0.011), detection calls 99.1% identical,
noob within 0.5% median; replicate r 0.997; all 21 control metrics pass. Spec deviations
recorded (5-field control lines, pOOBAH formula, minfi sheet keys). User guide section.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01814GKVzZVL3FuF3DeiZXhv

docs/known_unknowns.md

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Plan §20 lists the open questions; this file records what the implementation ha
 
 | ID | Date | Topic | Finding | Status |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
+| K-026 | 2026-09-29 | Methylation QC (v2) | Spec deviations: vendor EPIC manifests put a 5th field on some control lines (≥ 4 fields accepted); detection p follows sesame's pOOBAH (1 − max(F(M), F(U))) rather than the ambiguous "1 − ECDF(M + U)"; minfi-style `Sentrix_ID`/`Sentrix_Position` sheet keys accepted. Against sesame 1.28.1 on minfiDataEPIC: β r = 0.99998 (max \|Δβ\| 0.011), detection calls 99.1 % identical, noob signals within 0.5 % (median) / 5 % (max). The systematic remainder is unexplained; it is not the negative controls (sesame did not attach the supplied control table). | Open; `docs/validation/V2_methylation.md`. Next step: dump sesame's background vectors and noob parameters to find the difference. |
 | K-025 | 2026-09-28 | Scaling limits (P9) | With the Rust kernels a Graviton3 core genotypes 78–80 GSA samples/min. At > 8 workers a 125 MB/s gp3 volume caps the run at ~620 samples/min (GTC ≈ 13 MB each); on a RAM disk efficiency is 0.77 at 16 and 0.48 at 32 workers for 360 samples, explained by a fixed start-up cost (≈ 2.5 s + 0.2 s per worker). Linear scaling for large batches is inferred from that model, not measured. | `docs/validation/P9.md`; measure a ≥ 5000-sample batch when one is at hand. |
 | K-024 | 2026-09-28 | GSE165845 (P8) | GSA-MD v1 chips have no public cluster file; the GSA v1 C1 EGT with the C2 build-38 BPM covers 99.996 % of bead addresses and gives median LogR deviation 0.246 (cluster mismatch, not noise). GSM5051309 (NA20362 rep 2) is a failed array (call rate 0.762, concordance 0.336 with its own replicates). 27 510 array records have no NYGC 30x record and are scored as hom-ref; 1444 of them are systematically called alt. | Recorded in `docs/validation/P8.md`; results reported with and without these. |
 | K-023 | 2026-09-28 | P6 optional outputs | Implemented and validated the same day: `--info-fields` (with `--egt`), `--extra-format`, `--merge-snv-indel`, `--auxiliary-loci`, PLINK 2 `.pgen`. Two decisions: OUT-035 rule (d) uses the MNV's last plus-strand base for minus-strand designs (spec amended); `--extra-format` writes NORMX/NORMY missing where the raw intensities are both 0, and THETA/R missing where both normalized intensities are 0 (148 values on 3 GSA samples; gtc2vcf writes 0). | resolved |