VIVID: A web application for variant interpretation and visualization in multi-dimensional analyses

Tichkule, Swapnil, Myung, Yoochan, Naung, Myo T., Ansell, Brendan R. E., Guy, Andrew J., Srivastava, Namrata, Mehra, Somya, Cacciò, Simone M., Mueller, Ivo, Barry, Alyssa E., van Oosterhout, Cock ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5653-738X, Pope, Bernard, Ascher, David B. and Jex, Aaron R. (2022) VIVID: A web application for variant interpretation and visualization in multi-dimensional analyses. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39 (9). ISSN 0737-4038

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Abstract

Large-scale comparative genomics- and population genetic studies generate enormous amounts of polymorphism data in the form of DNA variants. Ultimately, the goal of many of these studies is to associate genetic variants to phenotypes or fitness. We introduce VIVID, an interactive, user-friendly web application that integrates a wide range of approaches for encoding genotypic to phenotypic information in any organism or disease, from an individual or population, in three-dimensional (3D) space. It allows mutation mapping and annotation, calculation of interactions and conservation scores, prediction of harmful effects, analysis of diversity and selection, and 3D visualization of genotypic information encoded in Variant Call Format on AlphaFold2 protein models. VIVID enables the rapid assessment of genes of interest in the study of adaptive evolution and the genetic load, and it helps prioritizing targets for experimental validation. We demonstrate the utility of VIVID by exploring the evolutionary genetics of the parasitic protist Plasmodium falciparum, revealing geographic variation in the signature of balancing selection in potential targets of functional antibodies.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: data visualization,evolution,multi-dimensional analysis,population genetics,protein structure,variant interpretation,ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics,molecular biology,genetics ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1100/1105
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation
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Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 07 Nov 2022 13:30
Last Modified: 04 Jul 2023 13:31
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/89686
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msac196

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