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ArticleVirology2013

Metadata-driven comparative analysis tool for sequences (meta-CATS): an automated process for identifying significant sequence variations that correlate with virus attributes.

B E Pickett, M Liu, E L Sadat, R B Squires, J M Noronha, S He, W Jen, S Zaremba, Z Gu, L Zhou and 6 more

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Article in Virology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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31citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

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31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.

B E PickettJ. Craig Venter Institute, 10355 Science Center Drive, San Diego, CA 92121, USA. Electronic address: bpickett@jcvi.org.
M Liu
E L Sadat
R B Squires
J M Noronha
S He
W Jen
S Zaremba
Z Gu
L Zhou
C N Larsen
I Bosch
L Gehrke
M McGee
E B Klem
R H Scheuermann
Northrop Grumman (United States) · USThe University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · USJ. Craig Venter Institute · USMassachusetts Institute of Technology · USSouthern Methodist University · USVecna Technologies (United States) · US

Funding

NIAID NIH HHS HHSN272200900041C
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Virus Pathogen Resource (ViPR; www.viprbrc.org) and Influenza Research Database (IRD; www.fludb.org) have developed a metadata-driven Comparative Analysis Tool for Sequences (meta-CATS), which performs statistical comparative analyses of nucleotide and amino acid sequence data to identify correlations between sequence variations and virus attributes (metadata). Meta-CATS guides users through: selecting a set of nucleotide or protein sequences; dividing them into multiple groups based on any associated metadata attribute (e.g. isolation location, host species); performing a statistical test at each aligned position; and identifying all residues that significantly differ between the groups. As proofs of concept, we have used meta-CATS to identify sequence biomarkers associated with dengue viruses isolated from different hemispheres, and to identify variations in the NS1 protein that are unique to each of the 4 dengue serotypes. Meta-CATS is made freely available to virology researchers to identify genotype-phenotype correlations for development of improved vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics.

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Virus Physiological PhenomenaComputational BiologyGenotypePhenotypeVirologyVirusesBioinformaticsComparative genomicsDatabaseDengueDENVStatistical comparisonVirologyVirus

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PMID24210098
PMCPMC5040469
OpenAlexW1570292067

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