Name: navigating marrvel, a web-based tool that integrates human genomics and model organism genetics information
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We thank Drs. Rami Al-Ouran, Seon-Young Kim, Yanhui (Claire) Hu, Ying-Wooi Wan, Naveen Manoharan, Sasidhar Pasupuleti, Aram Comjean, Dongxue Mao, Michael Wangler, Hsiao-Tuan Chao, Stephanie Mohr, and Norbert Perrimon for their support in the development and maintenance of MARRVEL. We are grateful to Samantha L. Deal and J. Michael Harnish for their input on this manuscript. &#160;
The initial development of MARRVEL was supported in part by the Undiagnosed Diseases Network Model Organisms Screening Center through the NIH Commonfund (U54NS093793) and&#160;through the NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP)&#160;(R24OD022005).&#160;JW is supported by the NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health &#38; Human Development (F30HD094503) and The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation McNair MD/PhD Student Scholar Program at BCM. HJB is further supported by the NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM067858) and is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. ZL is supported by the NIH National Institute of General Medical Science (R01GM120033), National Institute of Aging (R01AG057339), and the Huffington Foundation. SY received additional support from the NIH National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (R01DC014932), the Simons Foundation (SFARI Award: 368479), the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association (New Investigator Research Grant: 15-364099), Naman Family Fund for Basic Research and Caroline Wiess Law Fund for Research in Molecular Medicine.&#160;

1. How to begin a search
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	<li>For the human gene and variant-based search, go to steps 1.1.1.-1.1.2. For human gene-based search (no variant input), go to step 1.2. For model organism gene-based search, refer to steps 1.3.1.-1.3.2.
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		<li>Go to the home page of MARRVEL4 at http://marrvel.org/. Start by entering a human gene symbol. Ensure that the candidate gene names are listed below the input box with each character entry. If the search comes back negative, make sure the gene symbol ...

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Critical steps in this protocol include the initial input (steps 1.1-1.3) and subsequent interpretation of the output. The most common reason why search results are negative is because of the many ways that a gene and/or variant can be described. While MARRVEL is updated on a scheduled basis, these updates may cause disconnects between the different databases that MARRVEL links to. Thus, the first step in troubleshooting is invariably checking to see if alternative names of the gene or variant will lead to a successful s...

The use of next-generation sequencing technology is expanding in both research and clinical genetic laboratories1. Whole-exome (WES) and whole-genome sequencing (WGS) analyses reveal numerous rare variants of unknown significance (VUS) in known disease-causing genes as well as variants in genes that are yet to be associated with a Mendelian disease (GUS: genes of uncertain significance). Presented with a list of genes and variants in a clinical sequence report, medical geneticists must manually visit multiple online resources to obtain more information to assess which variant may be responsible for a certain phenotype seen in the patient of interest. This process is time-consuming, and its efficacy is highly dependent on the expertise of the individual. Although several guideline papers have been published2,3, interpretation of WES and WGS requires manual curation since there is yet to be a standardized methodology for variant analysis. For the interpretation of VUS, knowledge on the previously reported genotype-phenotype relationship, mode of inheritance, and allele frequencies in the general population become valuable. In addition, knowledge on whether the variant affects a critical protein domain, or an evolutionarily conserved residue may increase or decrease the likelihood of pathogenicity. To gather all of this information, one typically needs to navigate through 10-20 human and model organism databases since the information is scattered through the World Wide Web.
Similarly, model organism scientists who work on specific genes and pathways are often interested in connecting their findings to human disease mechanisms and wish to take advantage of the knowledge that is being generated in the human genomics field. However, due to the rapid expansion and evolution of data sets regarding the human genome, it has been challenging to identify databases that provide useful information. In addition, since most model organism databases are designed for researchers who work with the specific organism on a daily basis, it is very difficult, for example, for a mouse researcher to search for specific information in a Drosophila database and vice versa. Similar to the variant interpretation searches performed by medical geneticists, identifying useful human and other model organism information is time-consuming and heavily dependent on the background of the model organism researcher. MARRVEL (Model organism Aggregated Resources for Rare Variant ExpLoration)4 is a tool designed for both groups of users to streamline their workflow.
MARRVEL (http://marrvel.org) was designed as a centralized search engine that collects data systematically in an efficient and consistent manner for clinicians and researchers. With information from 20 or more publicly available databases, this program allows users to quickly gather information and access a large number of human and model organism databases without reiterative searches. The search result pages also contain hyperlinks to the original sources of information, allowing individuals to access the raw data and gather additional information provided by the sources.
In contrast to many of the variant prioritization tools that require large sequencing data input in the form of VCF or BAM files and installations of often proprietary/commercial software, MARRVEL operates on any web-browser. It can be used at no cost and compatible with portable devices (e.g. smartphones, tablets) as long as one is connected to the internet. We chose this format since many clinicians and researchers typically need to search one or a few genes and variants at a time. Note that we are developing batch-download and API (application programming interface) features for MARRVEL to eventually allow users to curate hundreds of genes and variants at a time through customized query tools if necessary.
Due to the wide range of applications, in this protocol, we will describe a broadly encompassing approach on how to navigate through different datasets that MARRVEL displays. More targeted examples that are tailored towards specific users&#8217; needs will be described in Representative Results section. It is important to note that the output of MARRVEL still requires a certain level of background knowledge in either human genetics or model organisms to extract valuable information. We refer the readers to the table that lists primary papers that describe the function of each of the original databases that are curated by MARRVEL (Table 1). The following protocol is divided into three sections: (1) How to begin a search, (2) how to interpret MARRVEL human genetics outputs, and (3) how to make use of model organism data in MARRVEL. In the Representative Results section, more focused and specific approaches are described. MARRVEL is being actively updated so please refer to the current website&#8217;s FAQ page for details about data sources. We strongly recommend the users of MARRVEL to sign up in order to receive update notifications through the e-mail submission form at the bottom of the MARRVEL home page.

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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;width:133px;">Human Genetics</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:169px;">ClinVar</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">PMID: 29165669</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:281px;">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;width:133px;">Human Genetics</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:169px;">DECIPHER</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">PMID: 19344873&#160;</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:281px;">https://decipher.sanger.ac.uk/</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;width:133px;">Human Genetics</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:169px;">DGV</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">PMID:&#160;24174537</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:281px;">http://dgv.tcag.ca/dgv/app/home</td>
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			<td height="42" style="height:42px;width:133px;">Orthology Prediction</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:169px;">DIOPT</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">PMID: 21880147&#160;</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:281px;">https://www.flyrnai.org/cgi-bin/DRSC_orthologs.pl</td>
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			<td height="63" style="height:63px;width:133px;">Human Gene/Transcript Nomenclature</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:169px;">Ensembl</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">PMID: 29155950&#160;</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:281px;">https://useast.ensembl.org/</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;width:133px;">Human Genetics</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:169px;">ExAC&#160;</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">PMID: 27535533</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:281px;">http://exac.broadinstitute.org/</td>
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			<td height="63" style="height:63px;width:133px;">Primary Model Organism Databases</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:169px;">FlyBase (Drosophila)</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">PMID:26467478</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:281px;">http://flybase.org</td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="63">
			<td height="63" style="height:63px;width:133px;">Model Organism Database Integration Tools</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">Gene2Function</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">PMID: 28663344</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:281px;">http://www.gene2function.org/search/</td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="42">
			<td height="42" style="height:42px;width:133px;">Human Genetics</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:169px;">Geno2MP</td>
			<td>N/A</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:281px;">http://geno2mp.gs.washington.edu/Geno2MP/</td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="106">
			<td height="106" style="height:106px;width:133px;">Human Genetics</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:169px;">gnomAD</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">PMID: 27535533</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:281px;">http://gnomad.broadinstitute.org/</td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="45">
			<td height="45" style="height:45px;width:133px;">Gene Ontology</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:169px;">GO Central</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">PMID: 10802651, 25428369&#160;</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:281px;">http://www.geneontology.org/</td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="63">
			<td height="63" style="height:63px;width:133px;">Human Gene/Protein Expression</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:169px;">GTEx</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">PMID: 29019975, 23715323&#160;</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:281px;">https://gtexportal.org/home/</td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="42">
			<td height="42" style="height:42px;width:133px;">Human Gene Nomenclature</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:169px;">HGNC</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">PMID: 27799471&#160;</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:281px;">https://www.genenames.org/</td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="63">
			<td height="63" style="height:63px;width:133px;">Primary Model Organism Databases</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:169px;">IMPC (mouse)</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">PMID: 27626380</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:281px;">http://www.mousephenotype.org/</td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="63">
			<td height="63" style="height:63px;width:133px;">Primary Model Organism Databases</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:169px;">MGI (mouse)</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">PMID:25348401</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:281px;">http://www.informatics.jax.org/</td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="61">
			<td height="61" style="height:61px;width:133px;">Model Organism Database Integration Tools</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:169px;">Monarch Initiative</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">PMID: 27899636</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:281px;">https://monarchinitiative.org/</td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="42">
			<td height="42" style="height:42px;width:133px;">Human Variant Nomenclature</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">Mutalyzer</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">PMID: 18000842&#160;</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:281px;">https://mutalyzer.nl/</td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="21">
			<td height="21" style="height:21px;width:133px;">Human Genetics</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:169px;">OMIM</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">PMID: 28654725</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:281px;">https://omim.org/</td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="63">
			<td height="63" style="height:63px;width:133px;">Primary Model Organism Databases</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:169px;">PomBase (fission yeast)</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">PMID:22039153</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:281px;">https://www.pombase.org/</td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="21">
			<td height="21" style="height:21px;width:133px;">Literature</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:169px;">PubMed</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">N/A</td>
			<td>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/</td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="63">
			<td height="63" style="height:63px;width:133px;">Primary Model Organism Databases</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:169px;">RGD (rat)</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">PMID:25355511</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:281px;">https://rgd.mcw.edu/</td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="63">
			<td height="63" style="height:63px;width:133px;">Primary Model Organism Databases</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:169px;">SGD (budding yeast)</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">PMID: 22110037</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:281px;">https://www.yeastgenome.org/</td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="63">
			<td height="63" style="height:63px;width:133px;">Human Gene/Protein Expression</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:169px;">The Human Protein Atlas</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">PMID: 21752111</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:281px;">https://www.proteinatlas.org/</td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="63">
			<td height="63" style="height:63px;width:133px;">Primary Model Organism Databases</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:169px;">WormBase (C. elegans)</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">PMID:26578572</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:281px;">http://wormbase.org</td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="63">
			<td height="63" style="height:63px;width:133px;">Primary Model Organism Databases</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:169px;">ZFIN (zebrafish)</td>
			<td style="width:169px;">PMID:26097180</td>
			<td dir="LTR" style="width:281px;">https://zfin.org/</td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
</table>

navigating marrvel, a web-based tool that integrates human genomics and model organism genetics information

Through whole-exome/genome sequencing, human geneticists identify rare variants that segregate with disease phenotypes. To assess if a specific variant is pathogenic, one must query many databases to determine whether the gene of interest is linked to a genetic disease, whether the specific variant has been reported before, and what functional data is available in model organism databases that may provide clues about the gene&#8217;s function in human. MARRVEL (Model organism Aggregated Resources for Rare Variant ExpLoration) is a one-stop data collection tool for human genes and variants and their orthologous genes in seven model organisms including in mouse, rat, zebrafish, fruit fly, nematode worm, fission yeast, and budding yeast. In this Protocol, we provide an overview of what MARRVEL can be used for and discuss how different datasets can be used to assess whether a variant of unknown significance (VUS) in a known disease-causing gene or a variant in a gene of uncertain significance (GUS) may be pathogenic. This protocol will guide a user through searching multiple human databases simultaneously starting with a human gene with or without a variant of interest. We also discuss how to utilize data from OMIM, ExAC/gnomAD, ClinVar, Geno2MP, DGV and DECHIPHER. Moreover, we illustrate how to interpret a list of ortholog candidate genes, expression patterns, and GO terms in model organisms associated with each human gene. Furthermore, we discuss the value protein structural domain annotations provided and explain how to use the multiple species protein alignment feature to assess whether a variant of interest affects an evolutionarily conserved domain or amino acid. Finally, we will discuss three different use-cases of this website. MARRVEL is an easily accessible open access website designed for both clinical and basic researchers and serves as a starting point to design experiments for functional studies.

Human geneticists and model organism scientists each use MARRVEL in distinct ways, each with different desired outcomes. Below are three vignettes of possible uses for MARRVEL.
Evaluating pathogenicity of a variant in a dominant disease 
Most of the users that visit MARRVEL use this website to analyze the likelihood that a rare human variant may cause a certain disease. For example, a missense (17:59477596 G&#62;A, p.R20Q) variant in TBX2 was found to segregate i...

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Navigating MARRVEL, a Web-Based Tool that Integrates Human Genomics and Model Organism Genetics Information

Here, we present a protocol to access and analyze many human and model organism databases efficiently. This protocol demonstrates the use of MARRVEL to analyze candidate disease-causing variants identified from next-generation sequencing efforts.

Through whole-exome/genome sequencing, human geneticists identify rare variants that segregate with disease phenotypes. To assess if a specific variant is ...

MARRVEL.org aggregates information that can provide an overview of the disease relevance of human genes, focusing mostly on rare genetic diseases. It also gathers biological information from model organism databases. MARRVEL can save a lot of time and effort.Without this tool, users would spend hours searching different databases to gather information that MARRVEL can obtain in seconds. MARRVEL is actively used by physicians and scientists all over the world. It facilitates diagnosis and can be a starting point for exploring more information for therapeutic studies.Although most of our users have a human genetics background, we have increasing numbers of users from a wide range of biomedical fields, including model organism researchers. For a human gene and variant-based search, open the MARRVEL home page. A search can be performed with gene information alone, variant information alone, or both gene and variant information.Confirm that the candidate gene names are listed below the input box with each character entry. If the search comes back negative, use the HGNC website to make sure that the gene symbol used is up to date. Next, enter a human variant information to how variants are displayed on the Exome Aggregation Consortium and Genome Aggregation Database, or use a transcript-based nomenclature according to the Human Genome Variation Society guidelines.For genomic location nomenclature, use the coordinates according to Homo sapiens genome assembly 19. To access the model organism data relative to the human gene of interest in MARRVEL, use the Gene Function Table to obtain each of the following for eight model organisms. As each gene name is hyperlinked to the gene pages on their respective model organism databases, click on the links to find out more about the phenotypic information and resources available for each model organism.For example, on FlyBase, there will be a list of all of the alleles that have been generated, their respective phenotypes, and the availability of each allele from public stock centers. In the Gene Function Table, click the PubMed links to go to a list of publications that relates to the gene of interest in each organism. To see the confidence level that the model organism gene is likely to be the ortholog of the human gene of interest, check the DIOPT column to obtain a measure of the number of ortholog prediction algorithms that the model organism gene is likely to be an ortholog of the human gene of interest.Uncheck the Show only best DIOPT score gene box to display all of the candidates that typically include paralogous genes and homologous genes that are not necessarily orthologs in each model organism. To determine the expression of the gene or protein of interest, check the Expression column for the list of tissues where the gene or protein of interest has been reported to be expressed in human or model organism databases. Human transcriptome data is obtained from Genotype-Tissue Expression, or GTEx, and human protein expression data is from the Human Protein Atlas.In the Expression column, some data will have a button with pop-up links, such as for human and fly data, that display the gene or protein expression pattern using a heat map. Other data are hyperlinked to their respective model organism databases pages for further exploration. To access the Gene Ontology terms, check the Molecular function, Cellular component, and Biological process columns.These data have been filtered by the experimental evidence codes and display Gene Ontology terms that are based on direct experimental evidence in each model organism. Use Monarch Initiative to navigate to the Phenogrid page for a specific human gene. A chart that provides a quick comparison between the phenotypes associated with the gene of interest to known human diseases and model organism mutants that have phenotypic overlaps will appear.If a mouse gene has a knockout mouse made or planned by the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium, clicking IMPC will link to the page that details the phenotype of the knockout mouse and its availability from public stock centers. To obtain information on predicted protein domains of the human protein of interest, click the Human Gene Protein Domains box. The data is derived from DIOPT, which uses protein families and Conserved Domains Databases.A single residue may be annotated more than once due to some overlap in domains annotated in the two sources. Then use the Multiple Protein Alignment box to obtain the amino acid multiple alignment generated by DIOPT that uses multiple alignment program for amino acid or nucleotide sequences aligner for each protein. To highlight the amino acid of interest, scroll down to the bottom of the box and enter the amino acid numbers of interest.To begin a search in MARRVEL based on model organism genes, click Model Organisms Search and select the model organism of choice. Enter a model organism gene symbol, click on the gene symbol as the name is auto-completed, and click Search. If the search result is negative, check the official gene symbol that is used in model organism databases.If the search result is still negative, access DIOPT and the Orthology Predictions Search database to assess if there are no good predicted orthologs for the gene of interest. If the search is positive, check the DIOPT score and the best score from human gene to model organism column for the selection of the human gene. If the gene has a DIOPT score of three or more and the best score from human gene to model organism is marked Yes, it is likely that there is more than one gene that is orthologous to the model organism gene of interest.Click the MARRVEL it link to display the search results for each human ortholog candidate. In this case, there is only one candidate. To interpret a MARRVEL human genetics output for a gene and variant of interest, click Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, or OMIM.Use the Human Gene Description box to obtain a short summary of what is known about the gene and gene product. Use the Gene-Phototype Relationships box to determine if the gene of interest is known to be a Mendelian disease-causing gene. This box will provide manually curated known diseases and other phenotype associations with the gene of interest.The Reported Alleles From OMIM box can be used to obtain a list of pathogenic variants curated by this database to see if the variant of interest has been curated in OMIM as pathogenic. In this example, a search for human TBX2 was performed to assess the known biological function of this gene and the potential functional impact of a specific missense variant in the gene found to segregate in a small family with a rare disease that involves the skeletal, cardiac, and immune systems. Here, the output for the TBX2 search can be seen.Based on the model organism information displayed in MARRVEL, it was quickly determined that this gene of interest is conserved from C.elegans and Drosophila to humans and that the amino acid of interest, arginine 20, is also highly conserved throughout evolution. Note that rat TBX2 does not align well in this region, likely due to the transcript that is used for the alignment. By looking at the Gene Ontology terms of the TBX2 orthologs within different species, it can be observed that TBX2 encodes a transcription factor that has been implicated in heart morphogenesis and other biological processes in mouse and zebrafish.As human TBX2 is expressed in the heart-based genotype tissue expression and protein atlases and patients with a TBX2 variant exhibit heart defects, it can be concluded that this variant is a good candidate to explore experimentally. Gene names may change over time, so it is important to confirm that you're using the latest official gene symbols based on human or model organism databases. Please watch our accompanying JoVE video article titled In Vivo Functional Study of Disease-associated Rare Human Variants Using Drosophila"for further experimental studies that can be performed.MARRVEL has been supporting clinicians and researchers in facilitating disease diagnosis and mechanistic studies. We will continue to do so by adding new features to the program as we move forward. MARRVEL is continuously being upgraded, so we recommend that users read the What's New section to stay up to date about the new features that have been introduced.

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