As part of its computation, the AVA software identifies certain differences between the Consensi or Reads corresponding to each Amplicon and their cognate Reference Sequences, and proposes them as possible Variants (see section 1.4). Depending on the size and complexity of the Project (and on whether or not the sequences you are working with are hypervariable), the Project could end up containing hundreds of thousands of potential Variants. Because the number of Variants can be so high, the AVA software features an automatic “intelligent” process for assigning meaningful names to the Variants, with the goal of generating Variant names that are unique for a given Reference Sequence, suitable for sensible sorting, and as informative as possible without being so long as to become unwieldy (above 25 characters).
