Literature

Our review "Predicting the Effects of Amino Acid Substitutions on Protein Function" in Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics
Chapter
Supplementary Table 1

Referencing SIFT

Predicting Deleterious Amino Acid Substitutions, Genome Res. 2001 May; 11(5): 863.874. (Link)

Accounting for Human Polymorphisms Predicted to Affect Protein Function, Genome Res. 2002 December; 436-446 (Link)

SIFT: predicting amino acid changes that affect protein function, Nucleic Acids Research, 2003, Vol. 31, No. 13 3812-3814 (Link)

Predicting the effects of coding non-synonymous variants on protein function using the SIFT algorithm, Nature Protocols 4, - 1073 - 1081 (2009) (Link)


SIFT predicts whether an amino acid substitution affects protein function based on sequence homology and the physical properties of amino acids. SIFT can be applied to naturally occurring nonsynonymous polymorphisms and laboratory-induced missense mutations.


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Tool Description/Input

1. Restrict to coding variants

Extract coding variants from a large list of genomic variants

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Provides SIFT predictions for variants with genome coordinates

2b. Classify coding indels (Insertion / Deletion polymorphisms)

Indel variants in genome coordinates

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Tool Description/Input

SIFT Batch Protein

Multiple proteins identifiers

SIFT dbSNP

Multiple rsIDs (NCBI dbSNP)

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Tool Description/Input

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Single protein (Query sequence)

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Single protein (Query with related sequences)

SIFT Aligned Sequences

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Other prediction tools for amino acid substitutions: PolyPhen , MAPP , SNPs3D

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