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    <p>Dear Kenneth,</p>
    <p>Unfortunately we changed significantly the VEP code (and it's
      structure) between the version 87 and 88 and we added the BAM-edit
      option in version 90 so it won't be easy to find a way to make it
      works with VEP version 80.</p>
    <p>The RefSeq data has been updated few times since the freeze of
      the Ensembl geneset on GRCh37 (version 75) and we regularly update
      the Variation data on this assembly.</p>
    <p>The "new" VEP (from version 88) is more robust: <a
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href="http://www.ensembl.info/2016/12/13/unwrap-the-new-vep-for-christmas/">http://www.ensembl.info/2016/12/13/unwrap-the-new-vep-for-christmas/</a>
      and the Ensembl/VEP version 92 has more variant annotations, so I
      would recommend to upgrade to the release 92.</p>
    <p><br>
      Best regards,<br>
    </p>
    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Laurent</pre>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14/05/2018 09:00, Kenneth Wong
      wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAHSPU_tQ-QuayBnKX5vLEwn6TDqfNv=-cq9vu+EPuf6ei6GCfw@mail.gmail.com">
      <div dir="ltr">Dear Laurent,
        <div><br>
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        <div>I try to run below command with VEP version 88 (and cache
          v88). It can fix the mentioned issue successfully. <br>
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        <div class="gmail_extra">As t<span
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            VEP version used in our project is version 80</span>, I try
          running the above command in version 80 but it failed due to
          unsupported option "--bam". <br
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          <span
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">To
            avoid upgrading VEP (code & cache) from version 80 to 92
            which will involve tremendous amount of testing work, would
            you please advice any workaround approach to use </span>BAM-edited
          transcript models in version 80 ?</div>
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        <div class="gmail_extra">If there is no simple workaround
          approach, do you think it is feasible for us to port the
          related scripts from version 92 to version 80?</div>
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        <div class="gmail_extra">Many thanks for your kindly help an
          advice!</div>
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        <div class="gmail_extra">Best Rdgs,</div>
        <div class="gmail_extra">Kenneth </div>
        <div class="gmail_extra"><br>
          <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 8:26 AM,
            Kenneth Wong <span dir="ltr"><<a
                href="mailto:kenneth@l3-bioinfo.com" target="_blank"
                moz-do-not-send="true">kenneth@l3-bioinfo.com</a>></span>
            wrote:<br>
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                <div>Dear Laurent,</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
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                <div dir="auto">Thanks a lot for your prompt and
                  detailed answer! It makes sense to fix such a mismatch
                  through VEP cache. </div>
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                <div dir="auto">Thanks again for yr great help!</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
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                <div dir="auto">Best Rgds,</div>
                <div dir="auto">Kenneth</div>
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                        <div dir="ltr">在 2018年5月11日週五 23:29,Laurent Gil
                          <<a href="mailto:lgil@ebi.ac.uk"
                            target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">lgil@ebi.ac.uk</a>>
                          寫道:<br>
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                            <p>Dear Kenneth,<br>
                              <br>
                              You are right: the VEP cache result is
                              correct.<br>
                              <br>
                              VEP returns annotations based on the
                              Genomic Reference Assembly sequence.</p>
                            <p>As you might know, sometimes the RefSeq
                              sequences don't match the Genomic
                              Reference Assembly sequence, which is the
                              case for NM_000348.3:<br>
                            </p>
                            <pre class="gmail-m_-4874758897740869537m_6100284029201197083text_sequence" style="font-family:"Courier New",Courier,monospace;font-size:12.8px;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">NM_000348.3:     121 <span class="gmail-m_-4874758897740869537m_6100284029201197083adorn gmail-m_-4874758897740869537m_6100284029201197083adorn-2 gmail-m_-4874758897740869537m_6100284029201197083_seq" style="font-size:1em">TGGTCGCCCTTGGGGCACTGGCCTTGTACG<wbr>TCGCGAAGCCCTCCGGCTACGGGAAGCACA</span> NM_000348.3:     180<span class="gmail-m_-4874758897740869537m_6100284029201197083ad-post-2" style="font-size:1em"></span>
                 121 <span class="gmail-m_-4874758897740869537m_6100284029201197083adorn gmail-m_-4874758897740869537m_6100284029201197083adorn-8" style="font-size:1em">||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||<wbr>|||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||</span>                  180<span class="gmail-m_-4874758897740869537m_6100284029201197083ad-post-8" style="font-size:1em"></span>
          2:31805920 <span class="gmail-m_-4874758897740869537m_6100284029201197083adorn gmail-m_-4874758897740869537m_6100284029201197083adorn-14" style="font-size:1em"><span style="font-size:1em">TGGTCGCCCTTGGGGCACTGGCCTTGTACG<wbr>TCGCGAAGCC-</span><span title="ENSE00001559957
ENSE00001070145" style="font-size:1em;color:rgb(221,0,0)">T</span><span title="ENSE00001559957" style="font-size:1em;color:rgb(221,0,0)">CC</span><span title="ENSE00001559957
ENSE00000932452" style="font-size:1em;color:rgb(221,0,0)">GGCTACGGGAAGCACA</span></span>           2:31805861<span class="gmail-m_-4874758897740869537m_6100284029201197083ad-post-14" style="font-size:1em"></span>
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                            <br>
                            <p>We started to develop a way to alter the
                              Genomic Reference Assembly sequence for
                              RefSeq sequence (when the sequences don't
                              match) in order to provide a more accurate
                              prediction/annotation of variants on
                              RefSeq data.<br>
                              <br>
                              At the moment this is only available
                              through the VEP cache, so we strongly
                              recommend to use VEP cache when you use
                              VEP with the RefSeq dataset.</p>
                            <p>I hope this makes sense.</p>
                            <p>Best regards,<br>
                            </p>
                            <pre class="gmail-m_-4874758897740869537m_6100284029201197083moz-signature" cols="72">Laurent</pre>
                            <div
                              class="gmail-m_-4874758897740869537m_6100284029201197083moz-cite-prefix">On
                              11/05/2018 10:45, Kenneth Wong wrote:<br>
                            </div>
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                                <div>The scenario is described as below
                                  :</div>
                                <div>1. input.vcf :</div>
                                <div>   ##fileformat=VCFv4.0</div>
                                <div>   #CHROM  POS     ID      REF   
                                   ALT     QUAL    FILTER  INFO</div>
                                <div>   2       31754395        .     
                                   C       T       .       .       .</div>
                                <div><br>
                                </div>
                                <div>2. Execute below commands with
                                  versions 92</div>
                                <div><br>
                                </div>
                                <div> /* Run VEP by connecting to remote
                                  Ensembl DB */</div>
                                <div>
                                  <div>  ./vep -i  input.vcf -o
                                    vep-online.out\</div>
                                  <div>
                                    <div>  --fork 4 --buffer_size 100\</div>
                                    <div>  --refseq --assembly "GRCh37"\</div>
                                    <div>  --database --port 3337 --db
                                      92\</div>
                                    <div>  --hgvs --numbers --symbol
                                      --flag_pick --no_stats\</div>
                                    <div>  --species homo_sapiens\</div>
                                    <div>  --fields $VEP_FIELDS</div>
                                  </div>
                                </div>
                                <div><br>
                                </div>
                                <div><span
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"> /*
                                    Run VEP via local cache */</span><br>
                                </div>
                                <div><span
style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">
                                    <div>  ./vep -i input.vcf -o
                                      vep-cache.out\</div>
                                    <div>  --fork 4 --buffer_size 1000\</div>
                                    <div>  --offline --cache --dir_cache
                                      $VEP_CACHE_DIR\</div>
                                    <div>  --refseq --fasta <span
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">~/</span><span
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Homo_sapiens.GRCh37.75.dna.<wbr>primary_assembly.fa</span>\</div>
                                    <div>  --hgvs --numbers --symbol
                                      --flag_pick --no_stats\</div>
                                    <div>  --species homo_sapiens\</div>
                                    <div>  --fields $VEP_FIELDS\</div>
                                    <div>  --use_given_ref</div>
                                  </span></div>
                                <div><br>
                                </div>
                                <div>, where </div>
                                <div>$VEP_FIELDS=Uploaded_<wbr>variation,
                                  Location, Allele, Gene, SYMBOL,
                                  SYMBOL_SOURCE, HGNC_ID, Feature,
                                  Consequence, Protein_position,
                                  Amino_acids, Codons, HGVSc, HGVSp</div>
                                <div><br>
                                </div>
                                <div><span
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">$VEP_CACHE_DIR=~/.vep/cache/</span></div>
                                <div><span
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br>
                                  </span></div>
                                <div><span
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">3.
                                    Below discrepancies are found
                                    between the output file
                                    "vep-cache.out" and "vep-online.out"
                                    (as attached)</span></div>
                                <div><span
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br>
                                  </span></div>
                                <div><span
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">vep-cache.out
                                    :</span></div>
                                <div>- Amino_acids = R/Q</div>
                                <div>- Codons = cGa/cAa</div>
                                <div>- HGVSp = NP_000339.2:p.Arg227Gln</div>
                                <div><br>
                                </div>
                                <div>vep-online.out :</div>
                                <div>
                                  <div
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">-
                                    Amino_acids = E/K</div>
                                  <div
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">-
                                    Codons = Gag/Aag</div>
                                  <div
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">-
                                    HGVSp = NP_000339.2:p.Glu227Lys</div>
                                  <div
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br>
                                  </div>
                                  <div
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Assume
                                    the result in vep-cache.out is
                                    correct, would you please advice
                                    what's wrong in the parameters when
                                    running VEP via remote database?</div>
                                  <div
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br>
                                  </div>
                                  <div
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Many
                                    thanks for your help!</div>
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