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OVA combines a knowledge-based approach with a variant-filtering framework. It reduces the number of candidate variants by considering genotype and predicted effect on protein sequence, and scores the remainder on biological relevance to the query phenotype.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>We take advantage of several ontologies in order to bridge knowledge across multiple biomedical domains and facilitate computational analysis of annotations pertaining to genes, diseases, phenotypes, tissues and pathways. In this way, OVA combines information regarding molecular and physical phenotypes and integrates both human and model organism data to effectively prioritize variants. By assessing performance on both known and novel disease mutations, we show that OVA performs biologically meaningful candidate variant prioritization and can be more accurate than another recently published candidate variant prioritization tool.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Availability and implementation: OVA is freely accessible at http:\/\/dna2.leeds.ac.uk:8080\/OVA\/index.jsp<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0umaan@leeds.ac.uk<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btv473","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,8,13]],"date-time":"2015-08-13T20:49:23Z","timestamp":1439498963000},"page":"3822-3829","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":22,"title":["OVA: integrating molecular and physical phenotype data from multiple biomedical domain ontologies with variant filtering for enhanced variant prioritization"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"31","author":[{"given":"Agne","family":"Antanaviciute","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Section of Genetics, Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leeds and"}]},{"given":"Christopher M.","family":"Watson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Section of Genetics, Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leeds and"},{"name":"2 Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK"}]},{"given":"Sally M.","family":"Harrison","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Section of Genetics, Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leeds and"}]},{"given":"Carolina","family":"Lascelles","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Section of Genetics, Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leeds and"}]},{"given":"Laura","family":"Crinnion","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Section of Genetics, Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leeds and"},{"name":"2 Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK"}]},{"given":"Alexander F.","family":"Markham","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Section of Genetics, Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leeds and"}]},{"given":"David T.","family":"Bonthron","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Section of Genetics, Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leeds and"}]},{"given":"Ian M.","family":"Carr","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Section of Genetics, Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leeds and"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,8,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020202415975700_btv473-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"773","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btk031","article-title":"SUSPECTS: enabling fast and effective prioritization of positional candidates","volume":"22","author":"Adie","year":"2006","journal-title":"Bioinformatics"},{"key":"2023020202415975700_btv473-B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1002\/0471142905.hg0720s76","article-title":"Predicting functional effect of human missense mutations using PolyPhen-2","author":"Adzhubei","year":"2013","journal-title":"Curr. 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