Technologies for Genomic Medicine CANVAS and AnnoBot, Solutions for Genomic Variant Annotation A RENCI TECHNICAL REPORT TR-14-04 CONTACT INFORMATION Christopher Bizon, PhD Telephone: 919.445.9600 Email:
[email protected] List of Technical Terms and Websites The Team* 1000 Genomes Project, www.1000genomes.org Christopher Bizon, PhD, RENCI AnnoBot (Annotation Bot) Senior Informatics Scientist; Stanley Ahalt, PhD, RENCI Director and BioPython software,biopython.org/wiki/Main_Page Professor, Department of Computer BLAT (BLAST-like Alignment Tool), www.blat.net Science UNC Chapel Hill; Karamarie CANVAS (CAroliNa Variant Annotation Store) Fecho, PhD, Medical and Scientific Writer for RENCI; Nassib Nassar, ClinVar (Clinical Variants Resource database), www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar RENCI Senior Research Scientist; dbSNP (Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Database), www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SNP Charles P. Schmitt, PhD, RENCI ESP (Exome Sequencing Project), evs.gs.washington.edu/EVS Chief Technical Officer and Director gbff (GenBank flat file) format, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Sitemap/samplerecord. of Informatics and Data Science; html. Erik Scott, RENCI Senior Research Software Developer; and Kirk C. HGNC (HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee),www.genenames.org Wilhelmsen, MD, PhD, RENCI HGMD® (Human Gene Mutation Database), www.hgmd.cf.ac.uk/ac/index.php Director of Biomedical Research, PostgreSQL (Structured Query Language) database, www.postgresql.org RENCI Chief Domain Scientist pythonTM modules, www.python.org for Genomics, and Professor, Departments of Genetics and RefSeq (Reference Sequence Collection), www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/refseq Neurology, UNC Chapel Hill SQLite3 database, www.sqlite.org TR-14-04 in the RENCI Technical Report Series, May 2014 Introduction Renaissance Computing Institute enomic medicine holds great promise to transform the medical University of North Carolina profession and individualize health care.