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Update RefSeq database with Ensembl VEP

Hi,

I'm using the most current version of VEP (Ensembl variant effect predictor v92.3) and annotating against the RefSeq transcripts. The output shows that it is using

refseq version 01_2015

How can I update this to a more recent release? I can't seem to find where the refseq database has been installed (I'm using --offline)

Thanks

ensembl vep refseq
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updated by Emily Emily • written by rbagnall rbagnall

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It is possible to use the VEP with a GTF/GFF file directly. If you can get an up-to-date GTF/GFF file from RefSeq, you can use this.

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written by Emily Emily

Thanks Emily, that worked!

For those that are interested, I got the gff file from here:

ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/refseq/H_sapiens/annotation/GRCh37_latest/refseq_identifiers/GRCh37_latest_genomic.gff.gz

Then unzipped, sorted, bgzipped and tabix indexed, as described on the VEP link provided by Emily. This adds additional refseq annotations to my output that would otherwise be missing if I only used the -cached refseq annotations.

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