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Annotating Genomic Variants

v1.36.0 · workflows · Artistic-2.0

Release Lineage

Entered 2.12 · Apr 4, 2013

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 27 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

Read and write VCF files. Identify structural location of variants and compute amino acid coding changes for non-synonymous variants. Use SIFT and PolyPhen database packages to predict consequence of amino acid coding changes.

Advisories

None published for Bioconductor

Code intelligence has not been computed for this package yet.

Code

Structure

Lines of code

302

Files

4

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

Vignettes 302 (100%)

API

Exported functions

–

Internal functions

0

Testing

Has tests

No

Test-to-code ratio

–

testthat edition

–

Docs

Roxygen coverage

–

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

–

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

0%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

3.3.0

System requirements

–

C++ standard

–

License

Artistic-2.0

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

27

First release

2013-07-29

Latest release

2026-04-28

Avg cadence

182 days

Cold removal rate

–

Dep drift

8

LOC over versions

v3.6: 284 LOCv3.7: 300 LOCv3.8: 300 LOCv3.9: 300 LOCv3.10: 300 LOCv3.11: 300 LOCv3.12: 300 LOCv3.13: 302 LOCv3.14: 302 LOCv3.15: 302 LOCv3.16: 302 LOCv3.17: 302 LOCv3.18: 302 LOCv3.19: 302 LOCv3.20: 302 LOCv3.21: 302 LOCv3.22: 302 LOCv3.23: 302 LOC

Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/bioc-code-metrics.

Documentation

In the Bioconductor 3.23 release
READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes
Help pages
No help pages
Examples that run
no examples
Exported functions with examples
not tracked
Documented parameters
not tracked
Return-value docs
not tracked
Help pages citing references
not tracked

Repository practices

Bioconductor git repository

Checks read the Bioconductor git repository (git.bioconductor.org), branch RELEASE_3_23.

No development-tooling practices detected in the Bioconductor git repository.

Topics

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("variants")
Bioconductor Package Maintainer, Morgan, M., & Obenchain, V. (2026). variants: Annotating Genomic Variants (Version 1.36.0) [Computer software]. https://bioconductor.org/packages/variants

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for variants version 1.36.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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