cyberneticlibrary

Annotate genetic variants with regulatory data

variant-annotationskillsetup L335
ammawla/encode-toolkit
What it does

Annotate genomic variants with functional predictions

Best for

Clinical variant interpretation when you need comprehensive functional predictions and disease association.

Inputs
  • · VCF file with variants
  • · Annotation databases (VEP, ANNOVAR, snpEff)
  • · Prediction models (CADD, SIFT, PolyPhen)
Outputs
  • · Annotated VCF with effect predictions
  • · Functional impact scores
  • · Clinvar/OMIM cross-references
Requires
  • · VEP/ANNOVAR/snpEff
  • · External DBs (gnomAD, ClinVar)
  • · Prediction APIs
Preconditions

Valid VCF input, reference genome fasta, annotation DB indices built

Failure modes

Invalid VCF format, reference mismatch, missing DB files, API rate limit exceeded, stale prediction models

Trust signals
  • · Multi-database integration
  • · Prediction score standardization
  • · ClinVar cross-reference
  • · Population frequency context (gnomAD)