A Python package for parsing, validating, mapping and formatting sequence variants using HGVS nomenclature

Biological sequence variants are commonly represented in scientific literature, clinical reports and databases of variation using the mutation nomenclature guidelines endorsed by the Human Genome Variation Society (HGVS). Despite the widespread use of the standard, no freely available and comprehens...

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Published in:Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) England), 2015-01, Vol.31 (2), p.268-270
Main Authors: Hart, Reece K, Rico, Rudolph, Hare, Emily, Garcia, John, Westbrook, Jody, Fusaro, Vincent A
Format: Article
Language:English
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Computational Biology - methods
Databases, Factual
Genetic Variation - genetics
Genome, Human
Humans
Molecular Sequence Annotation
Software
Terminology as Topic
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Summary:Biological sequence variants are commonly represented in scientific literature, clinical reports and databases of variation using the mutation nomenclature guidelines endorsed by the Human Genome Variation Society (HGVS). Despite the widespread use of the standard, no freely available and comprehensive programming libraries are available. Here we report an open-source and easy-to-use Python library that facilitates the parsing, manipulation, formatting and validation of variants according to the HGVS specification. The current implementation focuses on the subset of the HGVS recommendations that precisely describe sequence-level variation relevant to the application of high-throughput sequencing to clinical diagnostics. The package is released under the Apache 2.0 open-source license. Source code, documentation and issue tracking are available at http://bitbucket.org/hgvs/hgvs/. Python packages are available at PyPI (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hgvs). Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
ISSN:1367-4803
1367-4811
DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu630