diff --git a/R/extraction_1KG.R b/R/extraction_1KG.R
index 4a13e6e1a76a68dd06e48eb2d4875c0854d24dbb..afcaae47454d920485dd59902600877a3a6ff4d2 100644
--- a/R/extraction_1KG.R
+++ b/R/extraction_1KG.R
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ globalVariables("ind")
 #' Currently, this is hard-coded to access 1000 Genomes phase3 data hosted by
 #' Brian Browning (author of BEAGLE):
 #'
-#' \url{http://bochet.gcc.biostat.washington.edu/beagle/1000_Genomes_phase3_v5a/}
+#' \url{http://bochet.gcc.biostat.washington.edu/beagle/1000_Genomes_phase3_v5a/b37.vcf/}
 #'
 #' This implementation discards multi-allelic markers that have a "," in the
 #' ALT column.
@@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ get_vcf <- function(chrom, start, end, pop = NA, path = "", web = TRUE) {
         # These are variants filtered by Brian Browning, the developer of BEAGLE.
         data_url = paste(sep = "",
                          "http://tabix.iobio.io/?cmd=-h%20%27",
-                         "http://bochet.gcc.biostat.washington.edu/beagle/1000_Genomes_phase3_v5a/",
-                         "individual_chromosomes/chr", chrom, ".1kg.phase3.v5a.vcf.gz",
+                         "http://bochet.gcc.biostat.washington.edu/beagle/1000_Genomes_phase3_v5a/b37.vcf/",
+                         "chr", chrom, ".1kg.phase3.v5a.vcf.gz",
                          "%27%20", chrom, ":", start, "-", end
         )
         # Download the data from the server.
@@ -161,151 +161,11 @@ get_vcf <- function(chrom, start, end, pop = NA, path = "", web = TRUE) {
     
     # Convert the genotypes to a numeric matrix.
     retval$geno <- t(apply(retval$geno, 1, function(row) {
-        as.numeric(do.call(cbind, strsplit(row, "|", fixed = TRUE)))
+        as.numeric(do.call(cbind, strsplit(unlist(row), "[/|]")))
     }))
     
     rownames(retval$geno) <- retval$meta$ID
     colnames(retval$geno) <- rep(retval$ind$Individual.ID, each = 2)
     
     return(retval)
-}
-
-################################################################################
-# OLD VERSION - KEEP FOR SAFETY
-
-# get_vcf <- function(chrom, start, end, pop = NA, path = "", web = TRUE) {
-#     
-#     # Hard-coded superpopulations for each individual.
-#     superpops <- rep(
-#         c("EUR","EAS","AMR","EAS","AMR","EAS","AMR","EAS","AMR","EUR","AMR",
-#           "EUR","AMR","SAS","EAS","EUR","EAS","AFR","AMR","AFR","AMR","AFR",
-#           "AMR","AFR","AMR","AFR","EAS","AFR","EAS","AMR","AFR","AMR","AFR",
-#           "EAS","AFR","AMR","EAS","EUR","EAS","AMR","AFR","AMR","AFR","AMR",
-#           "AFR","AMR","AFR","AMR","EAS","AFR","AMR","AFR","SAS","AFR","EAS",
-#           "AFR","SAS","AFR","SAS","AFR","SAS","AFR","SAS","AFR","SAS","AFR",
-#           "SAS","AFR","SAS","AFR","SAS","AFR","SAS","EUR","AFR","EAS","AFR",
-#           "EAS","AFR","EAS","AFR","AMR","AFR","AMR","AFR","EUR","SAS"),
-#         c(185,42,3,35,4,28,9,15,111,1,68,24,9,4,6,73,56,8,2,5,24,2,13,5,7,5,
-#           17,4,21,2,1,3,3,17,2,3,20,14,1,2,2,11,4,8,3,1,13,2,35,2,1,22,4,7,
-#           4,27,5,16,10,6,13,6,9,9,12,58,10,84,6,74,3,25,310,99,19,103,29,70,
-#           18,34,142,19,8,45,52,107,103)
-#     )
-#     
-#     # Hard-coded populations for each individual.
-#     pops <- rep(
-#         c("GBR","FIN","GBR","FIN","CHS","PUR","CHS","PUR","CHS","PUR","CDX","PUR",
-#           "CLM","PUR","CLM","PUR","GBR","CLM","PUR","CLM","IBS","CLM","PEL","PJL",
-#           "KHV","IBS","GBR","CDX","KHV","ACB","PEL","ACB","PEL","ACB","PEL","ACB",
-#           "PEL","ACB","KHV","ACB","KHV","PEL","ACB","PEL","ACB","KHV","ACB","PEL",
-#           "CDX","GBR","IBS","CDX","PEL","ACB","PEL","ACB","PEL","ACB","PEL","ACB",
-#           "PEL","CDX","ACB","PEL","ACB","GWD","ACB","PJL","ACB","KHV","ACB","GWD",
-#           "ACB","GWD","PJL","GWD","PJL","GWD","PJL","GWD","PJL","GWD","PJL","GWD",
-#           "ESN","GWD","BEB","PJL","GWD","MSL","ESN","MSL","PJL","GWD","ESN","MSL",
-#           "PJL","ESN","GWD","MSL","BEB","PJL","STU","PJL","STU","PJL","STU","ITU",
-#           "STU","ITU","STU","PJL","ITU","BEB","STU","ITU","STU","BEB","STU","ITU",
-#           "STU","ITU","STU","ITU","STU","ITU","STU","ITU","STU","ITU","BEB","ITU",
-#           "STU","ITU","STU","ITU","CEU","YRI","CHB","YRI","JPT","LWK","JPT","YRI",
-#           "LWK","ASW","MXL","ASW","MXL","ASW","TSI","GIH"),
-#         c(55,17,31,82,42,3,35,4,28,9,15,41,18,26,16,10,1,27,11,30,24,3,6,4,6,70,
-#           3,22,34,8,2,5,24,2,13,5,7,5,17,4,21,2,1,3,3,17,2,3,20,1,13,1,2,2,11,4,
-#           8,3,1,13,2,35,2,1,9,4,9,4,7,4,10,7,2,8,5,16,10,6,13,6,9,9,12,37,19,2,4,
-#           6,10,27,43,4,6,6,29,39,3,8,2,15,13,8,5,7,19,6,1,11,5,1,12,3,20,20,13,15,
-#           13,21,9,12,8,2,2,10,7,8,1,7,4,1,28,5,1,7,2,3,99,19,103,29,70,18,34,60,
-#           81,1,19,8,45,52,107,103)
-#     )
-#     
-#     if (!is.na(pop) && !pop %in% pops && !pop %in% superpops && pop != "ALL") {
-#         stop(
-#             "Invalid pop=", pop,
-#             "\nMust be a pop: ", paste(unique(pops), collapse = " "),
-#             "\nOr a superpop: ", paste(unique(superpops), collapse = " ")
-#         )
-#     }
-#     
-#     if (!is.numeric(start) || start < 1) {
-#         stop("Invalid start=", start, "\nMust be a positive integer.")
-#     }
-#     
-#     if (!is.numeric(end) || end < start) {
-#         stop("Invalid end=", end, "\nMust be an integer >= start.")
-#     }
-#     
-#     if (!chrom %in% c(1:22, "X")) {
-#         stop(
-#             "Invalid chrom=", chrom,
-#             "\nMust be one of: ", paste(c(1:22, "X"), collapse = " ")
-#         )
-#     }
-#     
-#     txt <- NULL
-#     if (web == TRUE) {
-#         # These are variants filtered by Brian Browning, the developer of BEAGLE.
-#         data_url = paste(sep = "",
-#                          "http://tabix.iobio.io/?cmd=-h%20%27",
-#                          "http://bochet.gcc.biostat.washington.edu/beagle/1000_Genomes_phase3_v5a/",
-#                          "individual_chromosomes/chr", chrom, ".1kg.phase3.v5a.vcf.gz",
-#                          "%27%20", chrom, ":", start, "-", end
-#         )
-#         # Download the data from the server.
-#         txt <- RCurl::getURL(data_url)
-#     }
-#     
-#     if (web == FALSE) {
-#         command   <- paste("tabix -h ", path, " ", chrom, ":", start, "-", end, sep = "")
-#         txt       <- paste(unlist(system(command, intern = TRUE)), collapse = "\n")
-#     }
-#     
-#     # Extract the sample identifiers from the VCF header.
-#     sample_ids <- strsplit(
-#         # FIXME: Should detect number of comment lines.
-#         # Get the 5th line and split it.
-#         strsplit(txt, "\n", fixed = TRUE)[[1]][5],
-#         "\t", fixed = TRUE
-#     )[[1]]
-#     
-#     # Discard the "CHROM,POS,...,INFO,V9" columns.
-#     sample_ids <- sample_ids[10:length(sample_ids)]
-#     
-#     # Read the body of the data into a dataframe.
-#     
-#     vcf <- utils::read.delim(
-#         text = txt, header = FALSE, comment.char = "#", stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
-#     
-#     # Assign the standard column names and sample identifiers.
-#     colnames(vcf) <- c(
-#         "CHROM", "POS", "ID", "REF", "ALT", "QUAL", "FILTER", "INFO", "V9",
-#         sample_ids
-#     )
-#     
-#     # Discard multi-allelic markers.
-#     vcf <- vcf[grep(",", vcf$ALT, invert = TRUE), ]
-#     
-#     # Select the genotype columns that belong to a particular population.
-#     if (pop %in% pops) {
-#         vcf <- vcf[,c(rep(TRUE, 9), pops == pop)]
-#     } else if (pop %in% superpops) {
-#         vcf <- vcf[,c(rep(TRUE, 9), superpops == pop)]
-#     }
-#     
-#     retval <- list()
-#     
-#     utils::data("ind", package = "VarExp", envir = environment())
-#     retval$ind <- ind[colnames(vcf)[10:ncol(vcf)],]
-#     
-#     # Separate the metadata from the genotypes.
-#     retval$meta <- vcf[,1:8]
-#     retval$geno <- vcf[,10:ncol(vcf)]
-#     
-#     # Convert the genotypes to a numeric matrix.
-#     retval$geno <- t(apply(retval$geno, 1, function(row) {
-#         as.numeric(do.call(cbind, strsplit(row, "|", fixed = TRUE)))
-#     }))
-#     
-#     print(retval$meta)
-#     print(retval$meta$ID)
-#     rownames(retval$geno) <- retval$meta$ID
-#     print("aqui")
-#     colnames(retval$geno) <- rep(retval$ind$Individual.ID, each = 2)
-#     
-#     return(retval)
-# }
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+}
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