title: COMUS: Clinician-Oriented locus-specific MUtation detection and deposition System.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  A disease-causing mutation refers to a heritable genetic change that is associated with a specific phenotype (disease). The detection of a mutation from a patient's sample is critical for the diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of the disease. There are numerous databases and applications with which to archive mutation data. However, none of them have been implemented with any automated bioinformatics tools for mutation detection and analysis starting from raw data materials from patients. We present a Locus Specific mutation DB (LSDB) construction system that supports both mutation detection and deposition in one package.
  
  
  RESULTS
  COMUS (Clinician-Oriented locus specific MUtation detection and deposition System) is a mutation detection and deposition system for developing specific LSDBs. COMUS contains 1) a DNA sequence mutation analysis method for clinicians' mutation data identification and deposition and 2) a curation system for variation detection from clinicians' input data. To embody the COMUS system and to validate its clinical utility, we have chosen the disease hemophilia as a test database. A set of data files from bench experiments and clinical information from hemophilia patients were tested on the LSDB, KoHemGene http://www.kohemgene.org, which has proven to be a clinician-friendly interface for mutation detection and deposition.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  COMUS is a bioinformatics system for detecting and depositing new mutations from patient DNA with a clinician-friendly interface. LSDBs made using COMUS will promote the clinical utility of LSDBs. COMUS is available at http://www.comus.info.
authors: Korean Bioinformation Center (KOBIC), KRIBB, Daejeon, 305-806, Korea. sucho@kribb.re.kr
authors: Sungwoong
authors: S
authors: Jho
authors: Byoung-Chul
authors: BC
authors: Kim
authors: Ho
authors: H
authors: Ghang
authors: Ji-Han
authors: JH
authors: Kim
authors: Daeui
authors: D
authors: Park
authors: Hak-Min
authors: HM
authors: Kim
authors: Soo-young
authors: SY
authors: Jung
authors: Ki-young
authors: KY
authors: Yoo
authors: Hee-Jin
authors: HJ
authors: Kim
authors: Sunghoon
authors: S
authors: Lee
authors: Jong
authors: J
authors: Bhak
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D019295:Computational Biology; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D056426:Genetic Loci; D006467:Hemophilia A / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D012985:Software Design