TITINdb-a computational tool to assess titin's role as a disease gene

Bioinformatics. 2017 Nov 1;33(21):3482-3485. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx424.

Abstract

Summary: Large numbers of rare and unique titin missense variants have been discovered in both healthy and disease cohorts, thus the correct classification of variants as pathogenic or non-pathogenic has become imperative. Due to titin's large size (363 coding exons), current web applications are unable to map titin variants to domain structures. Here, we present a web application, TITINdb, which integrates titin structure, variant, sequence and isoform information, along with pre-computed predictions of the impact of non-synonymous single nucleotide variants, to facilitate the correct classification of titin variants.

Availability and implementation: TITINdb can be freely accessed at http://fraternalilab.kcl.ac.uk/TITINdb.

Contact: franca.fraternali@kcl.ac.uk.

Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

MeSH terms

  • Connectin / genetics*
  • Disease / genetics
  • Genetic Predisposition to Disease*
  • Genetic Variation
  • Protein Isoforms / genetics
  • Software*

Substances

  • Connectin
  • Protein Isoforms