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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2025

Predicting the Pathogenicity of Human Protein Variants: Not Only a Matter of Residue Labeling.

Matteo Manfredi, Gabriele Vazzana, Giulia Babbi, Elisa Bertolini, Castrense Savojardo, Pier Luigi Martelli, Rita Casadio

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Matteo ManfrediBiocomputing Group, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Gabriele VazzanaBiocomputing Group, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Giulia BabbiBiocomputing Group, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Elisa BertoliniBiocomputing Group, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Castrense SavojardoBiocomputing Group, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Pier Luigi MartelliBiocomputing Group, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. pierluigi.martelli@unibo.it.
Rita CasadioBiocomputing Group, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

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Abstract

The pathogenicity of human variants is an important annotation feature that may help in understanding, at a molecular level, the propensity for a human being to develop a certain disease or pathology. Recently, protein sequence embedding associated with machine and/or deep learning has been proven useful in improving results in this area. Different aspects of pathogenic variants can help in understanding the molecular mechanisms of the disease at a molecular level. These include solvent accessibility in the folded gene, the effect on the protein stability, and eventually the perturbation on interaction networks important for biological processes. Here, we describe how, once a variant is predicted "pathogenic", other important structural and functional properties can be derived computationally at the same website ( https://bioinformaticsweeties.biocomp.unibo.it/ ), including the protein structure, if not available. All the properties can help to understand variant effects within the complex context of the cell environment.

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Computational BiologyGenetic VariationProteinsDatabases, ProteinHumansProtein ConformationProteinsDeep learningHuman proteomeMachine learningPathogenicityProtein embeddingProtein stabilitySingle residue variationsSolvent accessibilityStructure predictionSuite of tools

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PMID40601259

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