Thursday, 10 November 2011

Adding Genomic Annotations Using SnpEff and VariantAnnotator - GSA

http://www.broadinstitute.org/gsa/wiki/index.php/Adding_Genomic_Annotations_Using_SnpEff_and_VariantAnnotator

reading this page has me interested to use snpEff as well ...

Introduction

Until recently we were using an in-house annotation tool for genomic annotation, but the burden of keeping the database current and our lack of ability to annotate indels has led us to employ the use of a third-party tool instead. After reviewing many external tools (including annoVar, VAT, and Oncotator), we decided that SnpEff best meets our needs as it accepts VCF files as input, can annotate a full exome callset (including indels) in seconds, and provides continually-updated transcript databases. We have implemented support in the GATK for parsing the output from the SnpEff tool and annotating VCFs with the information provided in it.


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