Table 1.
Properties of involved computational tools
Tool | Modeling approach | Model feature | Output | Website | Refs. |
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FunSeq2 | Knowledge-based | Evolutionary parameters; ENCODE summaries; PWMs; likely target genes; biological networks; recurrent elements across cancer samples | Cancer driver mutations | http://funseq2.gersteinlab.org/ | [14] |
CADD | Supervised learning | Evolutionary parameters; ENCODE summaries; population frequencies; transcript information; protein-level scores | Functional variants | https://cadd.gs.washington.edu/ | [16] |
GWAVA | Supervised learning | Evolutionary parameters; ENCODE summaries; population frequencies | Disease-related variants | https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/tools/gwava | [17] |
Eigen | Unsupervised learning | Evolutionary parameters; ENCODE summaries; population frequencies | Functional variants | http://www.columbia.edu/∼ii2135/eigen.html | [18] |
DeepSEA | Supervised learning (DL) | Local sequences; evolutionary parameters | Functional variants | http://deepsea.princeton.edu/ | [20] |
EnsembleExpr | Ensemble-based | Including features used by DeepSEA, DeepBind, KSM, and ChromHMM | Expression-modulating variants | http://ensembleexpr.csail.mit.edu/ | [21], [23], [24] |
ExPecto | Supervised learning (DL) | Local sequences | Expression-modulating variants | https://hb.flatironinstitute.org/expecto/ | [22] |
Note: ENCODE, Encyclopedia of DNA Elements; PWM, position weight matrix; DL, deep learning; KSM, k-mer set memory.