Title
Using bioinformatics to predict the functional impact of SNVs
Abstract
Motivation: The past decade has seen the introduction of fast and relatively inexpensive methods to detect genetic variation across the genome and exponential growth in the number of known single nucleotide variants (SNVs). There is increasing interest in bioinformatics approaches to identify variants that are functionally important from millions of candidate variants. Here, we describe the essential components of bionformatics tools that predict functional SNVs. Results: Bioinformatics tools have great potential to identify functional SNVs, but the black box nature of many tools can be a pitfall for researchers. Understanding the underlying methods, assumptions and biases of these tools is essential to their intelligent application. Contact: karchin@jhu.edu Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1093/bioinformatics/btq695
Bioinformatics
Field
DocType
Volume
Genome,Computer science,Bioinformatics
Journal
27
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1367-4803
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.60
15
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Melissa S. Cline127143.65
Rachel Karchin224337.12