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Gene Ontology term, gene network, or displaying a particular expression pro-
le such as tissue specicity. To facilitate variants ranking, some of the tools,
exemplied by VaRank, Variant Ranker, and VPOT, generate an aggregated
score from the various scores computed by many of the tools summarized
on Table 11.1. Each of these scores provides information on one aspect of a
variant’s potential contribution to disease development, such as functional
consequence (e.g., from PolyPhen), sequence conservation (e.g., phyloP),
splicing site alteration (e.g., MaxEntScan), etc. Since the contribution of each ...