diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8c8623f71f3ff15b036004296e9062013324f44b..5380543d43bba41ea37b618e6be3f2b10bb1da49 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ The tool is divided in 3 steps VEP annotates variants with information from multiple external databases and can be configure for to answer a lot of specific needs. For more details, see [VEP's options page](https://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/tools/vep/script/vep_options.html). VEP does not however extract information like number of reads or somatic status from the VCF file. vcf2maf is supposed to perform these tasks but failed to do on quite a lot of example VCF and does not always extract all the relevant information. For this reason, manual parsing was implemented in Python and was tested on TCGA VCF files from the legacy archive portal (see examples) and other VCFs. See the table for exhaustive details. - ### 1.2. vcf2maf vcf2maf also runs VEP internally but performs extra work to build some annotation fields including the following @@ -32,6 +31,8 @@ vcf2maf also runs VEP internally but performs extra work to build some annotatio - *HGVS_Short* - *all_effects* +that are not available from VEP's output. + ### 1.3. VEP Run the VEP annotator on the VCF file from a specific set of options. The options can be changed in the code if required.