# How to export or visualize the data after adding annotations using vep()

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**Category:** Hail Query & hailctl\
**Created:** [October 26, 2018, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/how-to-export-or-visualize-the-data-after-adding-annotations-using-vep/728 "2018-10-26T11:23:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Monica\_Sudarsanam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3be4f8/32.png) [@Monica\_Sudarsanam](https://discuss.hail.is/u/Monica_Sudarsanam)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/how-to-export-or-visualize-the-data-after-adding-annotations-using-vep/728/1 "2018-10-26T11:23:13Z")

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Hello everyone,

I am trying to export the data to a vcf file or a csv file after adding annotations using vep()

I used the following line to add annotations to my vcf file and it looked like it worked because when i used describe( ), i was able to see the structure.

**result = hl.vep(vcf\_file, “gs://hail-common/vep/vep/vep85-gcloud.json”)**

But when i tried **vcf\_file.vep.show ( )** i got the following error. I also tried to export the data to vcf or text, i got the same following error.

**Hail version: devel-0643c11962e8**  
**Error summary: HailException: vep command ‘/usr/bin/perl /vep/variant\_effect\_predictor/variant\_effect\_predictor.pl --format vcf --json --everything --allele\_number --no\_stats --cache --offline --dir /vep --fasta /vep/homo\_sapiens/85\_GRCh37/Homo\_sapiens.GRCh37.75.dna.primary\_assembly.fa --minimal --assembly GRCh37 --plugin LoF,human\_ancestor\_fa:/vep/loftee\_data/human\_ancestor.fa.gz,filter\_position:0.05,min\_intron\_size:15,conservation\_file:/vep/loftee\_data/phylocsf.sql -o STDOUT’ failed with non-zero exit status 2**

It would be great, if someone could help me with this.  
Thanks in advance.