title: The HIV mutation browser: a resource for human immunodeficiency virus mutagenesis and polymorphism data.
abstract: Huge research effort has been invested over many years to determine the phenotypes of natural or artificial mutations in HIV proteins--interpretation of mutation phenotypes is an invaluable source of new knowledge. The results of this research effort are recorded in the scientific literature, but it is difficult for virologists to rapidly find it. Manually locating data on phenotypic variation within the approximately 270,000 available HIV-related research articles, or the further 1,500 articles that are published each month is a daunting task. Accordingly, the HIV research community would benefit from a resource cataloguing the available HIV mutation literature. We have applied computational text-mining techniques to parse and map mutagenesis and polymorphism information from the HIV literature, have enriched the data with ancillary information and have developed a public, web-based interface through which it can be intuitively explored: the HIV mutation browser. The current release of the HIV mutation browser describes the phenotypes of 7,608 unique mutations at 2,520 sites in the HIV proteome, resulting from the analysis of 120,899 papers. The mutation information for each protein is organised in a residue-centric manner and each residue is linked to the relevant experimental literature. The importance of HIV as a global health burden advocates extensive effort to maximise the efficiency of HIV research. The HIV mutation browser provides a valuable new resource for the research community. The HIV mutation browser is available at: http://hivmut.org.
authors.affiliation: Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany; Department of Physiology and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America.
authors.forename: Norman E
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Davey
authors.affiliation: Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, Belval, Luxembourg.
authors.forename: Venkata P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Satagopam
authors.affiliation: Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Salvador
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Santiago-Mozos
authors.affiliation: Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Villacorta-Martin
authors.affiliation: Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Tanmay A M
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Bharat
authors.affiliation: Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, Belval, Luxembourg.
authors.forename: Reinhard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.affiliation: Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany; Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit, EMBL/Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: John A G
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Briggs
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000821:virology*; D015497:HIV-1 / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation / Q000235:genetics*