biodatageeks/vepyr_116_GRCh38_plugin_alphamissense
vepyr plugin cache — AlphaMissense (GRCh38, VEP 116) A prebuilt, frequency-tiered Parquet cache of AlphaMissense pathogenicity predictions for use with vepyr, the Rust/DataFusion VEP-compatible variant annotation engine. It reproduces the CSQ output of Ensembl VEP 116's --plugin AlphaMissense without requiring the upstream TSV or the Perl plugin at annotation time. Source version This is the fact you most likely came here for. Source file… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/biodatageeks/vepyr_116_GRCh38_plugin_alphamissense.
vepyr plugin cache — AlphaMissense (GRCh38, VEP 116)
A prebuilt, frequency-tiered Parquet cache of AlphaMissense pathogenicity predictions for use with vepyr, the Rust/DataFusion VEP-compatible variant annotation engine. It reproduces the CSQ output of Ensembl VEP 116's --plugin AlphaMissense without requiring the upstream TSV or the Perl plugin at annotation time.
Source version
This is the fact you most likely came here for.
AlphaMissense's distribution carries no internal version string — the file header is only the DeepMind copyright/licence banner — so the retrieval date above is the precise provenance marker for this build.
Provenance
Rebuilt on 2026-09-05 from sources verified against the v0.1.1 manifest; shard bytes are reproducible (a second build yields identical MD5s) since the tier stage orders rows totally. The sources block in manifest.json records url, declared and verified MD5, size and index digest for each input.
Contents
chr1.parquet … chr22.parquet, chrX/chrY/chrMT.parquet 25 per-contig shards
manifest.json schema, CSQ field mapping, per-shard row/tier counts, source provenanceCovers chr1–chr22, chrX, chrY and chrMT. Total ≈ 567 MB, 71,111,240 rows (84,844 warm / 71,026,396 cold).
Schema
Emitted CSQ fields, in VEP's own order: am_class, am_pathogenicity.
am_class thresholds are AlphaMissense's own: likely benign if score < 0.34, likely pathogenic if score > 0.564, ambiguous otherwise.
Matching semantics
AlphaMissense is a per-transcript annotation: VEP matches each transcript consequence's amino-acid change against the row's protein_variant. The lookup key is therefore (chrom, start, end, allele_string) plus the protein_variant discriminator, which vepyr builds at runtime from the engine attributes ref_aa, Protein_position and alt_aa.
Alleles are stored minimised (allele_match = "minimised"), matching AlphaMissense.pm, which calls get_matched_variant_alleles() before comparing rows.
Frequency tiering
Each shard is sorted by (tier, start). A row's tier is inherited row-for-row from the release-116 GRCh38 variation cache this plugin cache was built against: a plugin row takes the tier of its matching variation row, and a plugin row with no match there is cold. tier = 0 is warm — 83,141 rows, 0.12% of the cache; tier = 1 is cold. Because warm rows are physically contiguous at the front of the file, a warm-only probe touches a handful of row groups instead of scanning the shard. Per-shard warm/cold counts are in manifest.json.
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Quality profile
Generated 2026-09-05 by profile_plugin_cache.py (vepyr 0.4.0, Polars 1.39.3) from the shards in this commit; machine-readable copy in `qa_profile.json`.
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Usage
hf download biodatageeks/vepyr_116_GRCh38_plugin_alphamissense \
--repo-type dataset --local-dir ~/vepyr_plugin_cache/plugin/alphamissenseThe files are plain Parquet — usable directly from DuckDB, Polars or DataFusion independently of vepyr:
SELECT start, allele_string, protein_variant, am_class, am_pathogenicity
FROM 'chr21.parquet'
WHERE start BETWEEN 33000000 AND 33100000;Licence
AlphaMissense data is © 2023 DeepMind Technologies Limited and licensed [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) — non-commercial use only, share-alike. This cache is a format conversion of that data and inherits those terms. The predictions themselves are unmodified.
AlphaMissense is intended for research use; it is not validated for direct clinical application.
Citation
Cheng, J., Novati, G., Pan, J., et al. Accurate proteome-wide missense variant effect prediction with AlphaMissense. Science 381, eadg7492 (2023). doi:10.1126/science.adg7492
