Feature: Variant annotations


Hi everyone,
  This is a pull request for adding an Avro IDL file for variant annotations (annotations.avdl). 
  Annotations include records for variant effect, impact, coding and non-coding information, 
clinical relevance, etc.
  It is heavily based on VEP (ENSEMBL's Variant Effect Predictor) and SnpEff (an annotations 
tool I wrote).

oh i see, this object is for transcripts.
this object isn't used in your top level protocol though - I'm guessing adding methods will help us straighten this out.