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ArticleComputers in biology and medicine2016

WHATIF: An open-source desktop application for extraction and management of the incidental findings from next-generation sequencing variant data.

Zhan Ye, Christopher Kadolph, Robert Strenn, Daniel Wall, Elizabeth McPherson, Simon Lin

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Article in Computers in biology and medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Zhan YeBiomedical Informatics Research Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI 54449, USA. Electronic address: ye.zhan@mcrf.mfldclin.edu.
Christopher KadolphBiomedical Informatics Research Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI 54449, USA.
Robert StrennBiomedical Informatics Research Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI 54449, USA.
Daniel WallBiomedical Informatics Research Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI 54449, USA.
Elizabeth McPhersonDepartment of Medical Genetics Services, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI 54449, USA.
Simon LinBiomedical Informatics Research Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI 54449, USA.

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Institutional Clinical and Translational Science AwardUL1TR000427 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI DREZNER, MARC KENNETH · 2012 to 2016
$32.2M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000427NCATS NIH HHS UL1TR000427
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Abstract

backgroundIdentification and evaluation of incidental findings in patients following whole exome (WGS) or whole genome sequencing (WGS) is challenging for both practicing physicians and researchers. The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) recently recommended a list of reportable incidental genetic findings. However, no informatics tools are currently available to support evaluation of incidental findings in next-generation sequencing data.

methodsThe Wisconsin Hierarchical Analysis Tool for Incidental Findings (WHATIF), was developed as a stand-alone Windows-based desktop executable, to support the interactive analysis of incidental findings in the context of the ACMG recommendations. WHATIF integrates the European Bioinformatics Institute Variant Effect Predictor (VEP) tool for biological interpretation and the National Center for Biotechnology Information ClinVar tool for clinical interpretation.

resultsAn open-source desktop program was created to annotate incidental findings and present the results with a user-friendly interface. Further, a meaningful index (WHATIF Index) was devised for each gene to facilitate ranking of the relative importance of the variants and estimate the potential workload associated with further evaluation of the variants. Our WHATIF application is available at: http://tinyurl.com/WHATIF-SOFTWARE

conclusionsThe WHATIF application offers a user-friendly interface and allows users to investigate the extracted variant information efficiently and intuitively while always accessing the up to date information on variants via application programming interfaces (API) connections. WHATIF׳s highly flexible design and straightforward implementation aids users in customizing the source code to meet their own special needs.

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Genetic VariationHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingUser-Computer InterfaceAnimalsHumansSequence Analysis, DNAGenomicsInternetSequencingSoftware

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PMID25890833
PMCPMC4598261

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