diff --git a/svreader/AnnotatedRecord.py b/svreader/AnnotatedRecord.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 56fe661029971e48a3cb6f5c9ba9bc788fadd5f1..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/svreader/AnnotatedRecord.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,130 +0,0 @@
-
-from svreader import SVRecord, SVReader, SVWriter
-
-from pysam import VariantFile
-
-HOM_REF = (0, 0)
-HET_VAR = (0, 1)
-HOM_VAR = (1, 1)
-
-
-class AnnotatedRecord(object):
-    """
-    A lightweight object to annotated the final records
-    """
-    def __init__(self, record):
-        """
-        A pysam VariantRecord wrapper
-        """
-        self.__record = record
-        if "SVTYPE" in record.info.keys():
-            self._sv_type = record.info["SVTYPE"]
-        else:
-            self._sv_type = record.alts[0][1:-1]
-
-    @property
-    def record(self):
-        return self.__record
-
-    @property
-    def id(self):
-        return self.record.id
-
-    @id.setter
-    def id(self, id):
-        self.__record.id = id
-
-    @property
-    def pos(self):
-        return self.record.pos
-
-    @property
-    def chrom(self):
-        return self.record.chrom
-
-    @property
-    def stop(self):
-        return self.record.stop
-
-    @property
-    def svtype(self):
-        return self._sv_type
-
-    @property
-    def filter(self):
-        return self.record.filter
-
-    @property
-    def samples(self):
-        return self.record.samples
-
-
-class AnnotatedRecordSample(object):
-    """
-    A lightweight object to VariantRecordSample
-    """
-    def __init__(self, variantsample):
-        self.variantsample = variantsample
-
-
-class VCFReader(SVReader):
-
-    def __init__(self, file_name, reference_handle=None, svs_to_report=None):
-        super(VCFReader, self).__init__(file_name,
-                                        generic_name,
-                                        reference_handle)
-        self.vcf_reader = VariantFile(file_name)
-
-    def __iter__(self):
-        return self
-
-    def __next__(self):
-        while True:
-            raw_record = next(self.vcf_reader)
-            record = AnnotatedRecord(raw_record)
-            return record
-
-    def getHeader(self):
-        return self.vcf_reader.header
-
-    def addInfo(self, name, number, type, description):
-        self.vcf_reader.header.info.add(id=name,
-                                        number=number,
-                                        type=type,
-                                        description=description)
-
-    def addFilter(self, name, description):
-        self.vcf_reader.header.filters.add(id=name,
-                                           number=None,
-                                           type=None,
-                                           description=description)
-
-    def getOrderedSamples(self):
-        samples = self.vcf_reader.header.samples
-        sample_names = [sample.rsplit('.')[0] for sample in samples]
-        return sample_names
-
-    def numSamples(self):
-        return len(self.vcf_reader.header.samples)
-
-
-class VCFWriter(SVWriter):
-
-    def __init__(self, file_name,  template_reader, index=True):
-        super(VCFWriter, self).__init__(file_name,
-                                        template_reader.tool_name,
-                                        template_reader)
-
-    def _open(self):
-        self.vcf_writer = VariantFile(self.filename, 'w',
-                                      header=self.template_reader.getHeader())
-        self._isopen = True
-
-    def _write(self, record):
-        self.vcf_writer.write(record.record)
-
-    def _close(self):
-        if self._isopen:
-            self.vcf_writer.close()
-        else:   # nothing was written
-            self._dumpemptyvcf()