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Thus, the ability to predict the impact of mutations on protein stability and interactions is of significant value, particularly in understanding the effects of Mendelian and somatic mutations on the progression of disease. Here, we propose a novel approach to the study of missense mutations, called mCSM, which relies on graph-based signatures. These encode distance patterns between atoms and are used to represent the protein residue environment and to train predictive models. To understand the roles of mutations in disease, we have evaluated their impacts not only on protein stability but also on protein\u2013protein and protein\u2013nucleic acid interactions.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: We show that mCSM performs as well as or better than other methods that are used widely. The mCSM signatures were successfully used in different tasks demonstrating that the impact of a mutation can be correlated with the atomic-distance patterns surrounding an amino acid residue. We showed that mCSM can predict stability changes of a wide range of mutations occurring in the tumour suppressor protein p53, demonstrating the applicability of the proposed method in a challenging disease scenario.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and implementation: A web server is available at http:\/\/structure.bioc.cam.ac.uk\/mcsm.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0dpires@dcc.ufmg.br; tom@cryst.bioc.cam.ac.uk<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btt691","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,11,27]],"date-time":"2013-11-27T04:14:49Z","timestamp":1385525689000},"page":"335-342","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1005,"title":["mCSM: predicting the effects of mutations in proteins using graph-based signatures"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"30","author":[{"given":"Douglas E. 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