Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on March 4, 2009
Bioinformatics 2009 25(9):1185-1186; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp121
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A web server for inferring the human N-acetyltransferase-2 (NAT2) enzymatic phenotype from NAT2 genotype
Gen*NY*Sis Center for Excellence in Cancer Genomics, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University at Albany, One Discovery Drive, Rensselaer, NY 12144, USA
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Summary:N-acetyltransferase-2 (NAT2) is an important enzyme that catalyzes the acetylation of aromatic and heterocyclic amine carcinogens. Individuals in human populations are divided into three NAT2 acetylator phenotypes: slow, rapid and intermediate. NAT2PRED is a web server that implements a supervised pattern recognition method to infer NAT2 phenotype from SNPs found in NAT2 gene positions 282, 341, 481, 590, 803 and 857. The web server can be used for a fast determination of NAT2 phenotypes in genetic screens.
Availability:Freely available at http://nat2pred.rit.albany.edu
Contact:ikuznetsov{at}albany.edu; rmoslehi{at}albany.edu
Supplementary information:Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Associate Editor: Alfonso Valencia
Received on November 26, 2008; revised on February 5, 2009; accepted on February 26, 2009