Table 1

Attributes used for predicting functional effects of missense mutations

Abbreviation
Type
Description
Information

effect
Discrete
Effect of mutation on functionality
Class

ac
Continuous
Solvent accessible area of native AA

rac
Continuous
Accessibility relative to maximum accessibility in training set

bf
Continuous
Normalised B-factor of native AA

nbf
Continuous
Normalised B-factor of structural neighbourhood of native AA
Structural
bur
Discrete
Mutant AA is charged AA at buried site

trn
Discrete
Mutant AA occurs at glycine or proline in a turn

hlx
Discrete
Mutant AA occurs in helical region and involves glycine or proline

ifc
Discrete
Native AA is near subunit interface


nrent
Continuous
Phylogenetic entropy of structural neighbourhood of native AA
Structural + Evolutionary

rent
Continuous
Normalised phylogenetic entropy of native AA

cnsd
Discrete
Native AA is at conserved position in phylogenetic profile

ncnsd
Discrete
Native AA is near conserved position in phylogenetic profile
Evolutionary
uslaa
Discrete
Mutant AA is not in phylogenetic profile

uslby
Discrete
Mutant AA is not in the smallest AA class that includes the phylogenetic profile


Needham et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2006 7:405   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-405