NonSynonymousFilter.pm

=head1 LICENSE

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=head1 CONTACT

 Graham Ritchie <grsr@ebi.ac.uk>
    
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=head1 NAME

 NonSynonymousFilter

=head1 SYNOPSIS

 mv NonSynonymousFilter.pm ~/.vep/Plugins
 perl variant_effect_predictor.pl -i variations.vcf --plugin NonSynonymousFilter

=head1 DESCRIPTION

 A simple example VEP filter plugin that limits output to non-synonymous variants

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package NonSynonymousFilter;

use strict;
use warnings;

use base qw(Bio::EnsEMBL::Variation::Utils::BaseVepFilterPlugin);

sub feature_types {
    return ['Transcript'];
}

sub include_line {
    my ($self, $tva) = @_;

    # just check if there are alternative amino acids in the 
    # pep_allele_string, this means we'll catch stop gained
    # or lost as well

    if (my $pep_alleles = $tva->pep_allele_string) {
        return $pep_alleles =~ /\//;
    }

    return 0;
}

1;