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. 2019 Oct 16;188(5):605–622. doi: 10.1111/bjh.16175

Table 6.

List of web resources useful for variant interpretation.

Database Website URL
Reference sequence
NCBI reference sequence database https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome
Ensembl genome browser http://www.ensembl.org/index.htm
Locus reference genomic https://www.lrg-sequence.org/
RefSeqGene https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/refseq
MitoMap https://www.mitomap.org/MITOMAP/HumanMitoSeq
UCSC genome browser https://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTables
Population databases
dbSNP https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp/
Exome variant server http://evs.gs.washington.edu/EVS/
1000 genomes project http://browser.1000genomes.org
dbVar https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/dbvar
Exome Aggregation Consortium (ExAC) http://exac.broadinstitute.org/
Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) http://gnomad.broadinstitute.org/
Short genetic variation https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp
Somatic and constitutional variants databases
National Cancer Institute’s Genome Data Commons https://gdc.cancer.gov
Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer (COSMIC) http://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic
IARC TP53 mutation database http://p53.iarc.fr/TP53GeneVariations.aspx
TP53 website http://p53.fr/
Personalized cancer therapy https://pct.mdanderson.org
cBioPortal http://www.cbioportal.org
Intogen https://www.intogen.org/search
ClinicalTrials.gov https://clinicaltrials.gov
Pediatric Cancer Genome Project http://explorepcgp.org
My Cancer Genome http://www.mycancergenome.org
International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) https://dcc.icgc.org
The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) https://cancergenome.nih.gov/
VarSome The Human Genomic Variant Search Engine https://varsome.com
DECIPHER https://decipher.sanger.ac.uk/
ClinVar http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) https://www.omim.org/
Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD) http://www.hgmd.cf.ac.uk/ac/index.php
Leiden Open Variation Database (LOVD) http://www.lovd.nl
In‐house laboratory databases
RESMDmol https://www.gesmd.es/carrerasresearch/index.php
Algorithms for in silico prediction
PolyPhen2 http://genetics.bwh.harvard.edu/pph2
SIFT http://sift.jcvi.org
Mutation Assessor http://mutationassessor.org
Mutation Taster http://www.mutationtaster.org
PROVEAN http://provean.jcvi.org/index.php
CoVEC https://sourceforge.net/projects/covec/files
CADD http://cadd.gs.washington.edu
GERP++ http://mendel.stanford.edu/sidowlab/downloads/gerp/index.html
PhyloP and PhastCons http://compgen.bscb.cornell.edu/phast
ConSurf http://consurftest.tau.ac.il
FATHMM http://fathmm.biocompute.org.uk
PANTHER http://www.pantherdb.org/tools/csnpScoreForm.jsp
PhD‐SNP http://snps.biofold.org/phd-snp/phd-snp.html
SNPs & GO http://snps-and-go.biocomp.unibo.it/snps-and-go
Align GVGD http://agvgd.iarc.fr/agvgd_input.php
MAPP http://mendel.stanford.edu/SidowLab/downloads/MAPP/index.html
MutPred http://mutpred.mutdb.org
nsSNPAnalyzer http://snpanalyzer.uthsc.edu
Condel http://bg.upf.edu/condel/home
LRT http://www.genetics.wustl.edu/jflab/lrt_query.html
DANN https://omictools.com/dann-tool
Splice site prediction
Human splicing finder http://www.umd.be/HSF3
MaxEntScan http://genes.mit.edu/burgelab/maxent/Xmaxentscan_scoreseq.html
NetGene2 http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/NetGene2
NN plice http://www.fruitfly.org/seq_tools/splice.html
GeneSplicer http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/GeneSplicer/gene_spl.shtml
NNSplice http://www.fruitfly.org/seq_tools/splice.html
FSPLICE http://www.softberry.com/berry.phtml?topic=fsplice%26group=programs%26subgroup=gfind