We are happy to announce the release of the Varaico variants track for human assemblies hg38/GRCh38 and hg19/GRCh37. Varaico stands for "Variation Research Advancing Insight in Complex Organisms". Varaico was created using literature mining, similar to AVADA.
Varaico variants are generated by an automated process that extracts purely factual information about genes from scientific papers (by matching strings against gene names) and HGVS variant descriptions (using regular expressions). Varaico aims to reduce false-positive gene and variant mentions and link them together appropriately, but nonetheless, many variants displayed are not mapped to the genomic position intended by the authors. Visit the Varaico website for more details.
Mouse over the variants to show the gene, variant, latest author/year/title, number of publications mentioning the variant, and variant effect. Varaico variants may or may not be disease-causing.
Mouse-over is shown for the orange item (BRCA1 c.4136_4137del).
We would like to thank Johannes Birgmeier for generating and making the Varaico data available.
Jairo Navarro
UCSC Genome Browser
UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute
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