CADD v1. 7: using protein language models, regulatory CNNs and other nucleotide-level scores to improve genome-wide variant predictions

M Schubach, T Maass, L Nazaretyan… - Nucleic acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Machine Learning-based scoring and classification of genetic variants aids the
assessment of clinical findings and is employed to prioritize variants in diverse genetic …

Genome-wide prediction of disease variant effects with a deep protein language model

N Brandes, G Goldman, CH Wang, CJ Ye, V Ntranos - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Predicting the effects of coding variants is a major challenge. While recent deep-learning
models have improved variant effect prediction accuracy, they cannot analyze all coding …

DANN: a deep learning approach for annotating the pathogenicity of genetic variants

D Quang, Y Chen, X Xie - Bioinformatics, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Annotating genetic variants, especially non-coding variants, for the purpose of identifying
pathogenic variants remains a challenge. Combined annotation-dependent depletion …

A variant by any name: quantifying annotation discordance across tools and clinical databases

JL Yen, S Garcia, A Montana, J Harris, S Chervitz… - Genome Medicine, 2017 - Springer
Background Clinical genomic testing is dependent on the robust identification and reporting
of variant-level information in relation to disease. With the shift to high-throughput …

[HTML][HTML] SuSPect: enhanced prediction of single amino acid variant (SAV) phenotype using network features

CM Yates, I Filippis, LA Kelley… - Journal of molecular …, 2014 - Elsevier
Whole-genome and exome sequencing studies reveal many genetic variants between
individuals, some of which are linked to disease. Many of these variants lead to single amino …

Updated benchmarking of variant effect predictors using deep mutational scanning

BJ Livesey, JA Marsh - Molecular systems biology, 2023 - embopress.org
The assessment of variant effect predictor (VEP) performance is fraught with biases
introduced by benchmarking against clinical observations. In this study, building on our …

How good are pathogenicity predictors in detecting benign variants?

A Niroula, M Vihinen - PLoS computational biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Computational tools are widely used for interpreting variants detected in sequencing
projects. The choice of these tools is critical for reliable variant impact interpretation for …

Using deep mutational scanning to benchmark variant effect predictors and identify disease mutations

BJ Livesey, JA Marsh - Molecular systems biology, 2020 - embopress.org
To deal with the huge number of novel protein‐coding variants identified by genome and
exome sequencing studies, many computational variant effect predictors (VEPs) have been …

SNPnexus: assessing the functional relevance of genetic variation to facilitate the promise of precision medicine

AZ Dayem Ullah, J Oscanoa, J Wang… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Broader functional annotation of genetic variation is a valuable means for prioritising
phenotypically-important variants in further disease studies and large-scale genotyping …

CADD-Splice—improving genome-wide variant effect prediction using deep learning-derived splice scores

P Rentzsch, M Schubach, J Shendure, M Kircher - Genome medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background Splicing of genomic exons into mRNAs is a critical prerequisite for the accurate
synthesis of human proteins. Genetic variants impacting splicing underlie a substantial …