when the API is already installed and up-to-date, running INSTALL.pl should skip API installation and offer to install cache files/plugins. This logic is implemented in the check_api() function.
I installed VEP using the github installation, prior to running perl INSTALL.pl I installed the necessary packages Archive::Zip, DBD::mysql and DBI using cpanm. Unfortunately, the installation ended ...
The Ensembl gene annotation system has been used to annotate over 70 different vertebrate species across a wide range of genome projects. Furthermore, it generates the automatic alignment-based ...