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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2019-04-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09583-2 |