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variants

This is the released version of variants; for the devel version, see variants.

Annotating Genomic Variants


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

Read and write VCF files. Identify structural location of variants and compute amino acid coding changes for non-synonymous variants. Use SIFT and PolyPhen database packages to predict consequence of amino acid coding changes.

Author: Valerie Obenchain [aut], Martin Morgan [ctb], Bioconductor Package Maintainer [cre]

Maintainer: Bioconductor Package Maintainer <maintainer at bioconductor.org>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("variants")):
Seminal Bioconductor project articles:

Huber W, Carey VJ, Gentleman R, Anders S, Carlson M, Carvalho BS, Bravo HC, Davis S, Gatto L, Girke T, Gottardo R, Hahne F, Hansen KD, Irizarry RA, Lawrence M, Love MI, MacDonald J, Obenchain V, Oleś AK, Pagès H, Reyes A, Shannon P, Smyth GK, Tenenbaum D, Waldron L, Morgan M (2015). "Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor." Nature Methods, 12(2), 115–121. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3252.

Gentleman RC, Carey VJ, Bates DM, Bolstad B, Dettling M, Dudoit S, Ellis B, Gautier L, Ge Y, Gentry J, Hornik K, Hothorn T, Huber W, Iacus S, Irizarry R, Leisch F, Li C, Maechler M, Rossini AJ, Sawitzki G, Smith C, Smyth G, Tierney L, Yang JYH, Zhang J (2004). "Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics." Genome Biology, 5(10), R80. doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80.

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:


if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("variants")

For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.

Documentation

To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:

browseVignettes("variants")
Annotating Genomic Variants HTML R Script

Details

biocViews AnnotationWorkflow, ImmunoOncologyWorkflow, Workflow
Version 1.36.0
License Artistic-2.0
Depends R (>= 3.3.0), GenomeInfoDb, VariantAnnotation, org.Hs.eg.db, TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19, PolyPhen.Hsapiens.dbSNP131
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URL https://bioconductor.org/help/workflows/variants/
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Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package variants_1.36.0.tar.gz
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Source Repository git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/variants
Source Repository (Developer Access) git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/variants
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/variants/
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