Updating ClinVar Data

[nbodkin]

Hi,

I recently noticed that the ClinVar data on ProteinPaint isn't up to date, and I wanted to suggest automatic updating of ClinVar data.

ProteinPaint has been incredible helpful for me and others in my lab for visualizing variant-rich areas of various genes, and updated data would make it significantly better for us.

I'm not sure exactly what files ProteinPaint uses from ClinVar, but I've been able to previously download ClinVar VCF files programmatically – if helpful, my code for this can be found here: https://github.com/carvill-lab/clipe_pegrna_designer/blob/local-clinvar/src/preprocessing/download_clinvar.py

Also, I was unable to find the current version/release date of ClinVar that ProteinPaint is using, so it would be very helpful to have that documented somewhere (potentially on the visualization itself).