Improved measures for evolutionary conservation that exploit taxonomy distances

oleh: Nawar Malhis, Steven J. M. Jones, Jörg Gsponer

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2019-04-01

Deskripsi

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.