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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2020

Rhapsody: predicting the pathogenicity of human missense variants.

Luca Ponzoni, Daniel A Peñaherrera, Zoltán N Oltvai, Ivet Bahar

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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51 citing papers in PubMed, 106 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Luca PonzoniDepartment of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
Daniel A PeñaherreraDepartment of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
Zoltán N OltvaiDepartment of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
Ivet BaharDepartment of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
University of Pittsburgh · USUniversity of Minnesota · US

Funding

TrainingP41GM103712 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI BAHAR, IVET · 2012 to 2021
$16.3M
NIDA Center of Excellence OF Computational Drug Abuse Research (CDAR)P30DA035778 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI BAHAR, IVET, XIE, XIANG-QUN · 2014 to 2018
$5.4M
Integrated Interdisciplinary, inter-university PhD Program Computational Biology (T32)T32EB009403 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI BAHAR, IVET, BAR-JOSEPH, ZIV · 2009 to 2023
$4.4M
NIBIB NIH HHS T32 EB009403NIDA NIH HHS P30 DA035778NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103712
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationThe biological effects of human missense variants have been studied experimentally for decades but predicting their effects in clinical molecular diagnostics remains challenging. Available computational tools are usually based on the analysis of sequence conservation and structural properties of the mutant protein. We recently introduced a new machine learning method that demonstrated for the first time the significance of protein dynamics in determining the pathogenicity of missense variants.

resultsHere, we present a new interface (Rhapsody) that enables fully automated assessment of pathogenicity, incorporating both sequence coevolution data and structure- and dynamics-based features. Benchmarked against a dataset of about 20 000 annotated variants, the methodology is shown to outperform well-established and/or advanced prediction tools. We illustrate the utility of Rhapsody by in silico saturation mutagenesis studies of human H-Ras, phosphatase and tensin homolog and thiopurine S-methyltransferase. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The new tool is available both as an online webserver at http://rhapsody.csb.pitt.edu and as an open-source Python package (GitHub repository: https://github.com/prody/rhapsody; PyPI package installation: pip install prody-rhapsody). Links to additional resources, tutorials and package documentation are provided in the 'Python package' section of the website. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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