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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2017

Vermont: a multi-perspective visual interactive platform for mutational analysis.

Alexandre V Fassio, Pedro M Martins, Samuel da S Guimarães, Sócrates S A Junior, Vagner S Ribeiro, Raquel C de Melo-Minardi, Sabrina de A Silveira

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alexandre V FassioDepartment of Computer Science, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 6627, Antônio Carlos avenue, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, 31270-901, Brazil. alexandrefassio@dcc.ufmg.br.
Pedro M MartinsDepartment of Computer Science, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 6627, Antônio Carlos avenue, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, 31270-901, Brazil.
Samuel da S GuimarãesDepartment of Computer Science, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Peter Henry Rolfs avenue, Campus Universitário, Viçosa, 36570-900, Brazil.
Sócrates S A JuniorDepartment of Computer Science, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Peter Henry Rolfs avenue, Campus Universitário, Viçosa, 36570-900, Brazil.
Vagner S RibeiroDepartment of Computer Science, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Peter Henry Rolfs avenue, Campus Universitário, Viçosa, 36570-900, Brazil.
Raquel C de Melo-MinardiDepartment of Computer Science, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 6627, Antônio Carlos avenue, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, 31270-901, Brazil.
Sabrina de A SilveiraDepartment of Computer Science, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Peter Henry Rolfs avenue, Campus Universitário, Viçosa, 36570-900, Brazil.
Universidade Federal de Viçosa · BRUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundA huge amount of data about genomes and sequence variation is available and continues to grow on a large scale, which makes experimentally characterizing these mutations infeasible regarding disease association and effects on protein structure and function. Therefore, reliable computational approaches are needed to support the understanding of mutations and their impacts. Here, we present VERMONT 2.0, a visual interactive platform that combines sequence and structural parameters with interactive visualizations to make the impact of protein point mutations more understandable.

resultsWe aimed to contribute a novel visual analytics oriented method to analyze and gain insight on the impact of protein point mutations. To assess the ability of VERMONT to do this, we visually examined a set of mutations that were experimentally characterized to determine if VERMONT could identify damaging mutations and why they can be considered so.

conclusionsVERMONT allowed us to understand mutations by interpreting position-specific structural and physicochemical properties. Additionally, we note some specific positions we believe have an impact on protein function/structure in the case of mutation.

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SoftwareAmino Acid SequenceConserved SequenceDNA Mutational AnalysisHumansHydrophobic and Hydrophilic InteractionsMutationPolymorphism, Single NucleotideSequence AlignmentTumor Suppressor Protein p53Tumor Suppressor Protein p53Complex networkIntramolecular networkMutational analysisPoint mutationVisual analytics platform

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PMID28929973
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