Variant Tools

Record added by Jurg Ott (the original Rockefeller list)

Version

2.6.1

Description

Variant tools is a software tool for the manipulation, annotation, selection, simulation, and analysis of variants in the context of next-gen sequencing analysis. Unlike some other tools used for Next-Gen sequencing analysis, variant tools is project based and provides a whole set of tools to manipulate and analyze genetic variants.

Year

2012

Author

Anthony San Lucas
Gao Wang
Paul Scheet
Bo Peng

URL

http://varianttools.sourceforge.net

Language

C++, Python

OS

Linux, MacOS

EXE

vtools

Reference

F. Anthony San Lucas, Gao Wang, Paul Scheet, and Bo Peng (2012) Integrated annotation and analysis of genetic variants from next-generation sequencing studies with variant tools, Bioinformatics 28 (3): 421-422.

Tag

NGS variant filtering, annotation