Don’t want to look through our blog posts to find previous information about data updates on MyVariant.info? Now you don’t have to! Metadata about our data updates is now being logged on in our docs at http://docs.myvariant.info/en/latest/doc/release_changes.html. Hence, from here on out, you can find the most up-to-date metadata on our data releases in our docs. These updates will be in the same easy-to-compare tables that you’ve seen in our blog posts. If you’d like the most-recent metadata in json, you can get it from our metadata endpoint. Furthermore, you can obtain the most recent, assembly-specific metadata by specifying: assembly=hg38 or assembly=hg19 as in this example for hg38.
Data updates as of September 7, 2017
While we’re on the topic of new data releases, here are the most recent updates for GRCh37/hg19 variants:
| last release | new release | # of variants in last release |
# of variants in new release |
|
| ClinVar | 2017-08 | 2017-09 | 310,349 | 316,940 |
| dbnsfp | 3.4a | 3.5a | 82,366,524 | 82,366,524 |
| grasp | 2.0.0.0 | 2.0.0.0 | 2,473,750 | 2,651,542 |
| snpeff | 4.3k | 4.3k | 424,568,367 | 581,983,125 |
And here are the updates for GRCh38/hg38 variants:
| last release | new release | # of variants in last release |
# of variants in new release |
|
| ClinVar | 2017-08 | 2017-09 | 310,539 | 317,142 |
| dbnsfp | 3.4a | 3.5a | 82,443,748 | 82,443,748 |
| snpeff | 4.3k | 4.3k | 413,236,533 | 413,237,509 |
| uniprot | 2017-03 | 2017-07 | 527,607 | 527,607 |
As you can see, we’ve updated data from ClinVar, dbnsfp, grasp, snpeff, and uniprot. Visit and bookmark the MyVariant.info data release log and stay current on the newest MyVariant.info data releases.