grantham-package: grantham: Calculate the Grantham Distance

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grantham: Calculate the Grantham Distance

Description

A minimal set of routines to calculate the Grantham distance \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1126/science.185.4154.862")}. The Grantham distance attempts to provide a proxy for the evolutionary distance between two amino acids based on three key chemical properties: composition, polarity and molecular volume. In turn, evolutionary distance is used as a proxy for the impact of missense mutations. The higher the distance, the more deleterious the substitution is expected to be.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Ramiro Magno rmagno@pattern.institute (ORCID)

Authors:

Other contributors:

  • University of Algarve [funder]

  • CINTESIS [funder]

  • Pattern Institute [copyright holder, funder]

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