Announcing the 2018.1 Release of HGMD Professional
The spring release of HGMD Professional now contains a total of 224,642 mutation entries. That’s 4,372 more mutation entries than the previous release. Unlike other mutation databases, HGMD mutations are all backed by peer-reviewed publications where there is evidence of clinical impact.
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New HGMD feature
The batch search mode will now allow prioritization of variants by class (eg. DM class).
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ANNOVAR
This new version of ANNOVAR contains some minor fixes and improvements: fixed a bug in calculating upstream distance that print when -separate is specified in annotate_variation.pl, improvements to coding_change.pl to report more stopgain/stoploss and fix use-of-uninitialized-value issue, slight change to convert2annovar.pl to handle mal-formed VCF file. Per user request, we have now made hg38 version of ensGene available through ANNOVAR directly so that users do not need to build it themselves. avsnp150 is available through ANNOVAR now in hg19 and hg38 coordinate, to annotate your variants with dbSNP identifiers. Finally, the tatest clinvar (20170905) is available now through ANNOVAR in hg19 and hg38 coordinates. A long-standing problem on multi-allelic variants in ClinVar is now addressed, so that multi-allelic variants are now correctly assigned to the corresponding benign/pathogenic categories. The 20170130/20170501 versions are also updated to resolve this issue.
Learn more about how ANNOVAR can be used with HGMD for variant annotation.
Genome Trax™
Updated tracks have been released concurrent with the HGMD release for all HGMD-related tracks. Additional major tracks updated include TRANSFAC® release 2018.1, PROTEOME™ release 2018.1.