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 …

VariPred: Enhancing Pathogenicity Prediction of Missense Variants Using Protein Language Models

W Lin, J Wells, Z Wang, C Orengo, ACR Martin - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Computational approaches for predicting the pathogenicity of genetic variants have
advanced in recent years. These methods enable researchers to determine the possible …

Evaluating the relevance of sequence conservation in the prediction of pathogenic missense variants

E Capriotti, P Fariselli - Human Genetics, 2022 - Springer
Evolutionary information is the primary tool for detecting functional conservation in nucleic
acid and protein. This information has been extensively used to predict structure …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Performance comparison of computational methods for the prediction of the function and pathogenicity of non-coding variants

Z Wang, G Zhao, B Li, Z Fang, Q Chen… - Genomics …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Non-coding variants in the human genome significantly influence human traits and complex
diseases via their regulation and modification effects. Hence, an increasing number of …

VPOT: a customizable variant prioritization ordering tool for annotated variants

E Ip, G Chapman, D Winlaw… - Genomics …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies generate thousands to millions of genetic
variants per sample. Identification of potential disease-causal variants is labor intensive as it …

A benchmark study of scoring methods for non-coding mutations

D Drubay, D Gautheret, S Michiels - Bioinformatics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Detailed knowledge of coding sequences has led to different candidate models
for pathogenic variant prioritization. Several deleteriousness scores have been proposed for …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …