What it does

This tool will annotate variants using specified gene annotations, regions, and filtering databases. Input is a VCF dataset, and output is a table of annotations for each variant in the VCF dataset or a VCF dataset with the annotations in INFO fields.

ANNOVAR Website and Documentation

Website: http://www.openbioinformatics.org/annovar/

Paper: http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/38/16/e164

Important Usage Note

ANNOVAR is open-source and free for non-profit use. If you use it for commercial purposes, please contact BIOBASE (info@biobase-international.com) directly for license related issues. Also see http://www.openbioinformatics.org/annovar/annovar_faq.html#license