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ArticleCancer informatics2020

VarCon: An R Package for Retrieving Neighboring Nucleotides of an SNV.

Johannes Ptok, Stephan Theiss, Heiner Schaal

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Article in Cancer informatics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Johannes PtokInstitute of Virology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0322-5649
Stephan TheissInstitute of Virology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Heiner SchaalInstitute of Virology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1636-4365
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reporting of a single nucleotide variant (SNV) follows the Sequence Variant Nomenclature (http://varnomen.hgvs.org/), using an unambiguous numbering scheme specific for coding and noncoding DNA. However, the corresponding sequence neighborhood of a given SNV, which is required to assess its impact on splicing regulation, is not easily accessible from this nomenclature. Providing fast and easy access to this neighborhood just from a given SNV reference, the novel tool VarCon combines information of the Ensembl human reference genome and the corresponding transcript table for accurate retrieval. VarCon also displays splice site scores (HBond and MaxEnt scores) and HEXplorer profiles of an SNV neighborhood, reflecting position-dependent splice enhancing and silencing properties.

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alternative splicingHBond scoreHEXplorer scoreR packagesequence retrievalSNPs

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PMID33281441
PMCPMC7691889
OpenAlexW3109933387

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