Annotate Variants with Effect Scores (WES)

The Annotate Variants with Effect Scores (WES) template workflow takes a variant track as input, and outputs a variant track with effect scores annotations added to non-reference SNVs.

See http://resources.qiagenbioinformatics.com/manuals/clcgenomicsworkbench/current/index.php?manual=Annotate_with_Effect_Scores.html for information about the underlying tool used to add these annotations.

Run the Annotate Variants with Effect Scores (WES) workflow

  1. The Annotate Variants (WES) workflow can be found in the Toolbox at:

            Template Workflows | Biomedical Workflows (Image biomedical_twf_folder_open_16_n_p) | Whole Exome Sequencing (Image exome_sequencing_closed_16_n_p) | General Workflows (WES) (Image general_wes_wf_closed_16_n_p) | Annotate Variants with Effect Scores (WES) (Image effect_scores_wf_16_n_p)

  2. In the first wizard step (figure 20.8), select the input variant track.

    Image variant_selection
    Figure 20.8: Select the relevant variant track to annotate.

  3. In the next wizard step (figure 20.9), select the effect score data.

    Image dataset_selection
    Figure 20.9: Choose the relevant reference data set.

  4. In the last wizard step you can check all the workflow settings by clicking on the button labeled Preview All Parameters. If you wish to make changes to unlocked parameters, click on the Previous button until you get back to the relevant wizard step.

  5. Choose to Save your results and click on the button labeled Finish.

Output from the Annotate Variants with Effect Scores (WES) workflow

The Annotate Variants with Effect Scores (WES) outputs a variant track (Image variant_track_16_n_p) with the original annotations, plus the effect score annotations on non-reference SNVs. Effect scores may not be available for particular positions, since some effect scores can only be computed for coding regions.

When hovering the mouse cursor over an individual variant, a tooltip appears containing detailed information about that variant, include the effect score, where available.

The effect score values can also be reviewed by opening the table view of the variant track, as shown in figure 20.10.

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Figure 20.10: Variants annotated with effect scores, here shown in a split view with the track view at the top and the table view at the bottom.