Appendices

• Getting Involved
• Design Decisions
  • Variation Rather than Variant
  • Allele Rather than Variant
  • Alleles are Fully Justified
  • Implementations should normalize Alleles
  • Inter-residue Coordinates
  • Modelling Language
  • Serialization Strategy
  • Not using External Chromosome Declarations
• Development Process
  • Release Cycle
  • Leadership
• Future Plans
  • Overview
  • Intervals and Locations
  • Variation Classes
  • Categorical Variation
• Implementations
  • Libraries
  • Applications and Web Services
• Relationship of VRS to existing standards
• Associating Annotations with VRS Objects
• Equivalence Between Concepts
  • Using Sequence Expressions
• Proposal for GA4GH-wide Computed Identifier Standard
  • Background
  • Proposal
  • Type Prefixes
  • Administration
• Truncated Digest Timing and Collision Analysis
  • Conclusions
  • Digest Timing
  • Collision Analysis
  • Choosing a digest size
• Frequently (Asked and) Answered Questions
• Glossary