Figure 7.
VAAST search procedure. One or more variant files (in VCF or GVF format) are first annotated using the VAAST annotation tool and a GFF3 file of genome annotations. Multiple target and background variant files are then combined by the VAAST annotation tool into a single condenser file; these two files, one for the background and one for the target genomes, together with a GFF3 file containing the genomic features to be searched are then passed to VAAST. VAAST outputs a simple text file, which can also be viewed in the VAAST viewer.
