[HTML][HTML] Analyzing the functional effects of DNA variants with gene editing

S Cooper, S Obolenski, AJ Waters, AR Bassett… - Cell Reports …, 2024 - cell.com
Continual advancements in genomics have led to an ever-widening disparity between the
rate of discovery of genetic variants and our current understanding of their functions and …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive analysis of SARS-CoV-2 missense mutations indicates that all possible amino acid replacements in the viral proteins occurred within the …

N Balasco, G Damaggio, L Esposito, V Colonna… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The surveillance of COVID-19 pandemic has led to the determination of millions of genome
sequences of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, with the accumulation of a wealth of information never …

[HTML][HTML] Deep mutational scanning in disease-related genes with saturation Mutagenesis-reinforced functional assays (SMuRF)

K Ma, KK Ng, S Huang, NJ Lake, J Xu, A Lek, L Ge… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Interpretation of disease-causing genetic variants remains a challenge in human
genetics. Current costs and complexity of deep mutational scanning methods hamper crowd …

Unsupervised learning reveals landscape of local structural motifs across protein classes

A Derry, RB Altman - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Proteins are known to share similarities in local regions of 3D structure even across
disparate global folds. Such correspondences can help to shed light on functional …

Assessment of variant effect predictors unveils variants difficulty as a critical performance indicator

R Radjasandirane, J Diharce, JC Gelly, AG de Brevern - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Amino acid substitutions in protein sequences are generally harmless, but a certain number
of these changes can lead to disease. Accurate prediction of the impact of genetic variants is …

Deep Learning on Local Sites for Protein Structure and Function Analysis

AWF Derry - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Understanding how the three-dimensional structure of a protein leads to its function is
important for determining disease mechanisms, developing targeted therapeutics, and …