Abstract:
Embodiments herein disclose a method for identifying co-evolving sites and and at least one substituent amino acid residue. The method includes obtaining a current state of a protein and an ancestral state of the protein. Further, the method includes determining at least one amino acid substitution along with at least one co-evolving site associated with the protein based on the current state of the protein and the ancestral state of the protein. Further, the method includes assessing the at least one amino acid substitution as a function of a nucleotide substitution in the protein. Further, the method includes assessing at least one co-evolving site substitution based on the at least one assessed amino acid substitution. Further, the method includes identifying the co-evolving sites and at least one substituent amino acid residue.
Abstract:
Provided are methods and devices for mutation prioritization, which are helpful in personalized therapy of a patient. Also, provided are methods and devices for generating a disease knowledgebase. Information present in various categories of knowledge sources with respect to a particular association of set may be identified. The identified information is ranked with respect to the disease knowledgebase to find out the most relevant ones for the treatment of a particular Disease/Gene/Mutation of a patient, thereby enabling medical experts to personalize a therapy to be administered to a patient.
Abstract:
A method of predicting an amino acid substitution includes: receiving input of information regarding a structure of an enzyme along with the site of the enzyme in proximity to a bound ligand; identifying a functional atom of a wild type (WT) amino acid at the site of interest and a functional atom of the ligand; confirming properties of the functional atom of the WT amino acid and the functional atom of the ligand; detecting whether an interaction exists between the functional atom of the WT amino acid and the functional atom of the ligand; selecting alternative amino acids according to a result of the detecting of the interaction; determining a score for each of the selected alternative amino acids, respectively; ranking the selected alternative amino acids, based on the scores; and predicting substitutions of alternative amino acids having high rankings from among the selected alternative amino acids.