Improved measures for evolutionary conservation that exploit taxonomy distances

Information on protein sequence variability and conservation can be leveraged to identify functionally important regions. Here, the authors develop new conservation measures that exploit taxonomy distances and LIST, a tool for predicting deleteriousness of human variants.

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Autores principales: Nawar Malhis, Steven J. M. Jones, Jörg Gsponer
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Lenguaje:EN
Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/19806ffe4cf2405a9013b781a10363c3
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Sumario:Information on protein sequence variability and conservation can be leveraged to identify functionally important regions. Here, the authors develop new conservation measures that exploit taxonomy distances and LIST, a tool for predicting deleteriousness of human variants.