VarFish (Kiosk) Beta:

Important and Legal Information

VarFish Kiosk is a password-less service.: Your case will get a long, random ID that is virtually impossible to guess. Anyone who knows this ID will be able to access your data.
Data protection and data retention.: VarFish Kiosk is currently a password-less online service. Your case will get a long, random ID that is virtually impossible to guess. Keep the case ID and address safe, anyone who knows this ID will be able to access your data. All data transfers to and from varfish-kiosk.bihealth.org use secure protocols. However, your data will be temporarily stored on our server. Only upload data if you have sufficient consent to do so. We do not inspect, make available or use uploaded data except for debugging the VarFish software. We monitor the server and website usage for operations and development purposes. All uploads will be deleted automatically after 2 months.
Custom VarFish installation.: If your data and/or consents do not allow for online processing with VarFish Kiosk you might want to consider an installation on your own server and run VarFish in "Classic" mode. This allows to create password protection and unlock the VarFish collaboration features. See the VarFish manual for more information.
For research use only.: The software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non infringement. In no event shall the authors or copyright holders be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the software or the use or other dealings in the software.
Citation and Github project.: If you use VarFish Kiosk in your research please cite.
Holtgrewe, M., Stolpe, O., Nieminen, M., Knaus, A., Segebrecht, L., Spielmann, M., Kornak, U., Mundlos, S., Seelow, D., Fischer-Zirnsak, B., Boschann, F., Scholl, U., Ehmke, N., and Beule, D. VarFish: Collaborative and Comprehensive Exome Analysis for Clinic and Research. Nucleic Acids Research, gkaa241, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaa241
You can find the project source code on Github.
Happy fishing for variants!

Upload VCF File to VarFish Kiosk

After the file has been uploaded, it will be annotated. Have a bit of patience and you will be redirected to the case detail view. Bookmark this case URL to retrieve it at a later point of time.

See the important information below!

Use the form below to upload a VCF into the VarFish Kiosk. For first-time users, we recommend the Kiosk tutorial. You can download some example data below.

VCF File*

Select the VCF file to upload (compressed or uncompressed).

PED File

Optional PED file with pedigree information, you can also type the text below.

PED Text

Alternatively, type the PED file here. If both are given, the file has precedence.

Example Data

Example data taken from the the Corpasome (via the Exomiser sample data).

pfeiffer-singleton.vcf.gz (healthy individual with variant associated with Pfeiffer syndrome)
pfeiffer-quartet.vcf.gz / pfeiffer-quartet.ped (healthy quartet with spike-in of a variant associated with Pfeiffer syndrome).