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Vcfanno: fast, flexible annotation of genetic variants

Overview of attention for article published in Genome Biology (Online Edition), June 2016
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (91st percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (59th percentile)

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Title
Vcfanno: fast, flexible annotation of genetic variants
Published in
Genome Biology (Online Edition), June 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13059-016-0973-5
Pubmed ID
27250555
Authors

Brent S. Pedersen, Ryan M. Layer, Aaron R. Quinlan

Abstract

The integration of genome annotations is critical to the identification of genetic variants that are relevant to studies of disease or other traits. However, comprehensive variant annotation with diverse file formats is difficult with existing methods. Here we describe vcfanno, which flexibly extracts and summarizes attributes from multiple annotation files and integrates the annotations within the INFO column of the original VCF file. By leveraging a parallel "chromosome sweeping" algorithm, we demonstrate substantial performance gains by annotating ~85,000 variants per second with 50 attributes from 17 commonly used genome annotation resources. Vcfanno is available at https://github.com/brentp/vcfanno under the MIT license.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Egypt 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 150 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 57 36%
Student > Ph. D. Student 30 19%
Student > Master 18 11%
Student > Bachelor 8 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 4%
Other 19 12%
Unknown 20 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 59 37%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 49 31%
Computer Science 10 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 5%
Neuroscience 3 2%
Other 7 4%
Unknown 22 14%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 August 2020.
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#1,574,461
of 23,189,371 outputs
Outputs from Genome Biology (Online Edition)
#1,379
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#30,228
of 340,113 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Genome Biology (Online Edition)
#35
of 84 outputs
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