https://divingintogeneticsandgenomics.com/tags/snv/ Recent content in SNV on Chatomics Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us © 2018 Ming 'Tommy' Tang Wed, 27 Sep 2017 19:25:00 -0700 https://divingintogeneticsandgenomics.com/archive/use-annovar-to-annotate-variants/ Wed, 27 Sep 2017 19:25:00 -0700 https://divingintogeneticsandgenomics.com/archive/use-annovar-to-annotate-variants/ Annovar is one of the widely used variants annotation tools. It was cited for over 2000 times which is amazing. It annotates the variants in a tabular format which is easy to parse. Other tools such as VEP and VCFanno are alternatives. First download the annovar package (you will need to register and an email with downloading link will be sent to you) wget http://www.openbioinformatics.org/annovar/download/0wgxR2rIVP/annovar.latest.tar.gz tar xvzf annovar.latest.tar.gz Download the databases cd annovar perl annotate_variation.