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Variant Effect Mapping Protocol Collection v1

2025· article· W7125835393 on OpenAlexaff
Warren van Loggerenberg, Daniel Zimmerman, Anna Axakova, Adrine de Souza

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Language
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicGenomics and Rare Diseases
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
FundersNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesNational Human Genome Research InstituteNational Institutes of Health
KeywordsWorkflowScalabilityProtocol (science)Function (biology)Protein functionMeasure (data warehouse)Data collectionHuman disease

Abstract

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Advances in cellular engineering and sequencing have enabled Multiplexed Assays of Variant Effect (MAVEs), a technological approach to proactively measure the functional impact of all possible missense variants in a disease-associated gene, including variants not yet observed in the clinic. The resulting “lookup tables” of measured variant function are commonly referred to as variant effect maps. There is a growing international effort to generate a comprehensive atlas of variant effects, with value not only for defining sequence–structure–function relationships and supporting clinical variant interpretation, but also for demonstrating quantitative correlations between functional scores and disease phenotypes. The protocols in this collection are organized sequentially and guide the user through preparing the gene of interest with a stop codon, performing site-directed mutagenesis, validating a scalable human cell- and yeast-based functional assay, generating mutagenic libraries, and executing a MAVE in a human cell line or in yeast. These workflows enable the measurement of variant effectsen masseusing complementary readouts — including growth-based assays and fluorophore reporters — to assess outputs such as total enzymatic activity and protein stability.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.017
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Protocol · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.237
Threshold uncertainty score0.792

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.017
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0030.004
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0030.002
Bibliometrics0.0060.004
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0040.002
Open science0.0040.004
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.2370.163

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.258
Teacher spread0.253 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreProtocol

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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