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Vcfanno: fast, flexible annotation of genetic variants

Overview of attention for article published in Genome Biology, June 2016
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Title
Vcfanno: fast, flexible annotation of genetic variants
Published in
Genome Biology, June 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13059-016-0973-5
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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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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 164 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 59 34%
Student > Ph. D. Student 30 17%
Student > Master 19 11%
Student > Bachelor 9 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 3%
Other 22 13%
Unknown 27 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 62 36%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 50 29%
Computer Science 10 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 5%
Neuroscience 3 2%
Other 10 6%
Unknown 29 17%
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