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ArticleNucleic acids research2017

PhD-SNPg: a webserver and lightweight tool for scoring single nucleotide variants.

Emidio Capriotti, Piero Fariselli

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 116 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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116citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
7.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

116 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 253 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Emidio CapriottiDepartment of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences (BiGeA), University of Bologna, Via F. Selmi 3, Bologna 40126, Italy.
Piero FariselliDepartment of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science. University of Padova, Viale dell'Università, 16, 35020 Legnaro, PD, Italy.
University of Bologna · ITUniversity of Padua · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One of the major challenges in human genetics is to identify functional effects of coding and non-coding single nucleotide variants (SNVs). In the past, several methods have been developed to identify disease-related single amino acid changes but only few tools are able to score the impact of non-coding variants. Among the most popular algorithms, CADD and FATHMM predict the effect of SNVs in non-coding regions combining sequence conservation with several functional features derived from the ENCODE project data. Thus, to run CADD or FATHMM locally, the installation process requires to download a large set of pre-calculated information. To facilitate the process of variant annotation we develop PhD-SNPg, a new easy-to-install and lightweight machine learning method that depends only on sequence-based features. Despite this, PhD-SNPg performs similarly or better than more complex methods. This makes PhD-SNPg ideal for quick SNV interpretation, and as benchmark for tool development. AVAILABILITY: PhD-SNPg is accessible at http://snps.biofold.org/phd-snpg.

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Genetic VariationSoftwareAlgorithmsHumansInternetMachine LearningSequence AnalysisUser-Computer Interface

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PMID28482034
PMCPMC5570245
OpenAlexW2612969216

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