We will provide long-term support to the academic community for software usage issues. Additionally, we will continuously update the software to accommodate and take advantage of different sources of functional annotation, for example, annotations based on exome sequencing from the 1000 Genomes Project in the future. We believe that ANNOVAR will be useful to prioritize genetic variants from diverse genomes, and expedite scientific discoveries from the massive amounts of sequencing data produced from high-throughput sequencing platforms.
