PolyPhen-2 is a new development of the PolyPhen tool for annotating coding nonsynonymous SNPs. Some of the highlights of the new version are:
High quality multiple sequence alignment pipeline
Probabilistic classifier based on machine-learning method
Optimized for high-throughput analysis of the next-generation sequencing data
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