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What’s new for the VEP

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Will (Variation)

It has been quite a while since we’ve blogged about the VEP (Variant Effect Predictor), and in that time we’ve added a whole load of new features, particularly to the downloadable script version. Structural variants The VEP now supports finding … Continue reading →

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Importing VCF files

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Will (Variation)

Variant Call Format (VCF) has become the standard portable data format for variation data. Ensembl provides various tools for handling VCF files, such as the ability to upload and view VCF data on the genome browser, and the Variant Effect … Continue reading →

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New features in the Variant Effect Predictor

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Will (Variation)

The Variant Effect Predictor (VEP) software can predict the consequence of genomic variants using the genomic annotations provided by Ensembl. In release 63 of Ensembl we have added new features to both the script and web versions of the VEP. … Continue reading →

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