---
name: "vcfanno"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "vcfanno"
version: "0.3.5+ds-2+b9"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/vcfanno"
---

# vcfanno(1)

annotate a VCF with other VCFs/BEDs/tabixed files

## NAME

vcfanno - annotate a VCF with other VCFs/BEDs/tabixed files

## DESCRIPTION

\============================================= vcfanno version 0.3.2 \[built with go1.14.4\]

see: https://github.com/brentp/vcfanno ============================================= Usage of vcfanno:

**-base-path** string

-

  optional base-path to prepend to annotation files in the config

**-ends**

-

  annotate the start and end as well as the interval itself.

**-lua** string

-

  optional path to a file containing custom javascript functions to be used as ops

**-p** int

-

  number of processes to use. (default 2)

**-permissive-overlap**

-

  annotate with an overlapping variant even it doesn't share the same ref and alt alleles. Default is to require exact match between variants.

## AUTHOR

 This manpage was written by Nilesh Patra for the Debian distribution and\
  can be used for any other usage of the program.