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ArticleNature protocols2015

Next-generation diagnostics and disease-gene discovery with the Exomiser.

Damian Smedley, Julius O B Jacobsen, Marten Jäger, Sebastian Köhler, Manuel Holtgrewe, Max Schubach, Enrico Siragusa, Tomasz Zemojtel, Orion J Buske, Nicole L Washington and 3 more

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Article in Nature protocols, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 279 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

279 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Damian SmedleySkarnes Faculty Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.
Julius O B JacobsenSkarnes Faculty Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3265-1591
Marten JägerInstitute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Sebastian KöhlerInstitute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5316-1399
Manuel HoltgreweInstitute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Max SchubachInstitute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Enrico SiragusaInstitute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Tomasz ZemojtelInstitute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Orion J BuskeDepartment of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9064-092X
Nicole L WashingtonDivision of Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.
William P BoneThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) Undiagnosed Diseases Program, Common Fund, Office of the Director, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Melissa A HaendelDepartment of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health &Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Peter N RobinsonInstitute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0736-9199

Funding

The Monarch Initiative: Linking Diseases to Model Organism ResourcesR24OD011883 · OD · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI HAENDEL, MELISSA A, MUNGALL, CHRISTOPHER J · 2012 to 2024
$16.0M
NIH HHS R24 OD011883
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Exomiser is an application that prioritizes genes and variants in next-generation sequencing (NGS) projects for novel disease-gene discovery or differential diagnostics of Mendelian disease. Exomiser comprises a suite of algorithms for prioritizing exome sequences using random-walk analysis of protein interaction networks, clinical relevance and cross-species phenotype comparisons, as well as a wide range of other computational filters for variant frequency, predicted pathogenicity and pedigree analysis. In this protocol, we provide a detailed explanation of how to install Exomiser and use it to prioritize exome sequences in a number of scenarios. Exomiser requires ∼3 GB of RAM and roughly 15-90 s of computing time on a standard desktop computer to analyze a variant call format (VCF) file. Exomiser is freely available for academic use from http://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/tools/exomiser.

Indexed as

ExomeGenetic TestingHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansSequence Analysis, DNASoftware

Identifiers

PMID26562621
PMCPMC5467691

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