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Table 1 Publicly available functional annotation programs

From: Making sense of GWAS: using epigenomics and genome engineering to understand the functional relevance of SNPs in non-coding regions of the human genome

Tool

Type

Minimum input

Output

Epigenetic annotation file used

URL

PMID

HaploReg

Web server

rsID

Overlapping annotated features and TF motif disruption information for SNPs (input) and correlated SNPs with r2 >0.8

ChromHMM, DNase-seq, a library of position weight matrices (PWMs) from TRANSFAC, JASPAR, and protein binding array (PBM), and eQTL

http://www.broadinstitute.org/mammals/haploreg/haploreg_v3.php

22064851

RegulomeDB

Web server

rsID

Overlapping annotated features for SNPs (input) with scores which depend on the combination of overlapping annotated features and UCSC genome browser showing overlapping features

TF binding, Dnase-seq, FAIRE, DNase footprinting, eQTL, dsQTL, ChIP-exo and DNA methylation

http://www.regulomedb.org

22955989

FORGE

Web server

rsID

Overlapping DNase1 hotspots for SNP(input)

DNase1 hotspot

http://browser.1000genomes.org/Homo_sapiens/UserData/Forge

 

rSNPBase

Web server

rsID or gene name

Proximal or distal transcriptional regulation, miRNA regulation, RNA binding protein mediated regulation, eQTL results for SNPs (input) and correlated SNPs (r2>0.8)

histone modification, TF bindings, CpG islands, RBP, miRNA data

http://rsnp.psych.ac.cn/

24285297

FunciSNP

R package

GWAS index SNP information (chrom:position, rsID, population)in tab-delimited file, biofeature information in .bed format, user‐defined r 2 value

Overlapping annotated features for index SNP(input) and correlated SNPs which r2 values are user‐defined

Any biofeature annotation information in .bed format

https://github.com/labrazil/Coetzee_Seq_Analysis/tree/master/FunciSNP

22684628

GREGOR

A package run using perl code

A file containing single column of index SNPs, biofeature information in .bed format, user‐defined r 2 value

Prioritized variants based on overlap with selected regulatory regions, enrichment analysis with P‐values showing how index SNPs or correlated SNPs are enriched in annotated feature compared to control SNPs

Any biofeature annotation information in .bed format

http://csg.sph.umich.edu/GREGOR/index.php/site/index

25886982

Enlight

Web server

rsID, P value

Plots showing LD and overlapping annotated features for SNP (input)

chromHMM, histone modification, DNA methylation, TF bindings, eQTL, Hi-C or customized BED file for biofeatures

http://enlight.usc.edu/index.html

25262152

GWAS3D

Web server

rsID, P- value

TF motif analysis and overlapping annotated features for SNPs (input)

5C, Hi-C, ChIA-PET, ChromeHMM, H3K27Ac, p300, CTCF, DHS (Option for selecting cell lines relevant to disease)

http://jjwanglab.org/gwas3d

23723249

motifbreakR

R package

SNP information in .bed or .vcf format

Comprehensive TF binding sites disruption at SNPs (input)

TF motif information from ScerTF, FlyFactorSurvey, hpDI, UniPROBE, JASPAR, ENCODE, Homer, Factorbook, HOCOMOCO

https://github.com/Simon-Coetzee/motifBreakR--

26272984