SnpEff is an
open source
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tool that performs
annotation
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on
genetic variants and predicts their effects on genes by using an interval forest approach. This program takes pre-determined variants listed in a
data file
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Most of th ...
that contains the nucleotide change and its position and predicts if the variants are