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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Genet Med. 2015 Mar 5;17(5):405–424. doi: 10.1038/gim.2015.30

Table 2.

In Silico Predictive Algorithms

Missense
prediction
Name Website Basis
ConSurf http://consurftest.tau.ac.il Evolutionary conservation
FATHMM http://fathmm.biocompute.org.uk Evolutionary conservation
MutationAssessor http://mutationassessor.org Evolutionary conservation
PANTHER http://www.pantherdb.org/tools/csnpScoreForm.jsp Evolutionary conservation
PhD-SNP http://snps.biofold.org/phd-snp/phd-snp.html Evolutionary conservation
SIFT http://sift.jcvi.org Evolutionary conservation
SNPs&GO http://snps-and-go.biocomp.unibo.it/snps-and-go Protein structure/function
Align GVGD http://agvgd.iarc.fr/agvgd_input.php Protein structure/function and
evolutionary conservation
MAPP http://mendel.stanford.edu/SidowLab/downloads/MAPP/index.html Protein structure/function and
evolutionary conservation
MutationTaster http://www.mutationtaster.org Protein structure/function and
evolutionary conservation
MutPred http://mutpred.mutdb.org Protein structure/function and
evolutionary conservation
PolyPhen-2 http://genetics.bwh.harvard.edu/pph2 Protein structure/function and
evolutionary conservation
PROVEAN http://provean.jcvi.org/index.php Alignment and measurement of
similarity between variant sequence
and protein sequence homolog
nsSNPAnalyzer http://snpanalyzer.uthsc.edu Multiple sequence alignment and
protein structure analysis
Condel http://bg.upf.edu/condel/home Combines SIFT, PolyPhen-2 and
MutationAssessor
CADD http://cadd.gs.washington.edu Contrasts annotations of fixed/nearly
fixed derived alleles in humans with
simulated variants
Splice site
prediction
GeneSplicer http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/GeneSplicer/gene_spl.shtml Markov models
Human Splicing
Finder
http://www.umd.be/HSF Position-dependent logic
MaxEntScan http://genes.mit.edu/burgelab/maxent/Xmaxentscan_scoreseq.html Maximum entropy principle
NetGene2 http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/NetGene2 Neural networks
NNSplice http://www.fruitfly.org/seq_tools/splice.html Neural networks
FSPLICE http://www.softberry.com/berry.phtml?topic=fsplice&group=programs&subgroup=gfind
Nucleotide
conservation
prediction
GERP http://mendel.stanford.edu/sidowlab/downloads/gerp/index.html
PhastCons http://compgen.bscb.cornell.edu/phast/
PhyloP http://compgen.bscb.cornell.edu/phast/

In-silico tools/software prediction programs used for sequence variant interpretation