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ArticleProtein science : a publication of the Protein Society2020

VarSite: Disease variants and protein structure.

Roman A Laskowski, James D Stephenson, Ian Sillitoe, Christine A Orengo, Janet M Thornton

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Article in Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 63 papers.

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63citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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63 citing papers in PubMed, 118 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Roman A LaskowskiEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5528-0087
James D StephensonEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Cambridge, UK.
Ian SillitoeInstitute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London, UK.
Christine A OrengoInstitute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London, UK.
Janet M ThorntonEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Cambridge, UK.
European Bioinformatics Institute · GBInstitute of Structural and Molecular Biology · GB

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 104960/Z/14/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

VarSite is a web server mapping known disease-associated variants from UniProt and ClinVar, together with natural variants from gnomAD, onto protein 3D structures in the Protein Data Bank. The analyses are primarily image-based and provide both an overview for each human protein, as well as a report for any specific variant of interest. The information can be useful in assessing whether a given variant might be pathogenic or benign. The structural annotations for each position in the protein include protein secondary structure, interactions with ligand, metal, DNA/RNA, or other protein, and various measures of a given variant's possible impact on the protein's function. The 3D locations of the disease-associated variants can be viewed interactively via the 3dmol.js JavaScript viewer, as well as in RasMol and PyMOL. Users can search for specific variants, or sets of variants, by providing the DNA coordinates of the base change(s) of interest. Additionally, various agglomerative analyses are given, such as the mapping of disease and natural variants onto specific Pfam or CATH domains. The server is freely accessible to all at: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/thornton-srv/databases/VarSite.

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Databases, GeneticCloud ComputingComputational BiologyGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenetic VariationHumansModels, MolecularProtein ConformationProteinsUser-Computer InterfaceProteins3D protein structureCATHClinVardisease variantsgnomADmolecular interactionsnatural variantsPDBPfamschematic diagramsUniProtVarMapVarSite

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PMID31606900
PMCPMC6933866
OpenAlexW2979570058

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