VariantAnnotationTool

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Use cases

Novel variant calls from sequencing experiment

List of rs IDs

Implementation plan: who's going to do what?

Features

Like many existing tools, we will report the variants' effects on genes (splice-3, coding-non-synon etc.).

UCSC's major enhancements will be

  1. the incorporation of the many types of data in our database
  2. presentation of the results: not just loads of data, but also links to browser views

Input

  • pgSnp
  • VCF
  • Other formats, e.g. outputs of popular NGS pipelines?
    • 23andMe?  :)

Output

  • tab-separated file
  • custom track in GB/TB
  • intermediate level to summarize and filter findings

Interface

CGI

Main page

Form:

  • paste/upload variants
  • select annotation sources
    • any track including custom tracks?
  • select output format/presentation
    • custom track in [Genome Browser | Table Browser]
    • summary with filters
  • go!

followed by brief how-to and link to more detailed doc.

Summary/Filters

Stats: #variants, #variants intersecting each annotation source (further broken down for protein-coding genes)

Form:

  • Select annotation source
  • Filters
    • For protein-coding gene annotations: coding-non-synon, etc.
    • For wiggle tracks: min/max threshold
    • ...?

command line