 base for annotating
variants found using that reference genome. The authors of SnpEff tend to think that such a
precompiled data base will be available for nearly any species, and as a consequence
they have liberally peppered their documentation with warnings to the effect that there
is almost surely a precompiled data base for your use.</p>
<p>While it is impressive how many precompiled data bases there are for SnpEff, the reality is
that if you are doing conservation genomics or evolutionary or agricultu