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 <h2>Description</h2>
 <p>
 The <b>NMDetective</b> tracks display genome-wide predictions of nonsense-mediated mRNA
-decay (NMD) efficiency from
+decay (NMD) efficiency using the NMDetective-A and NMDetective-B models from
+<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31659324" target="_blank">Lindeboom et al. 2019</a>,
+trained on the NMD efficiency measure from
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27618451" target="_blank">Lindeboom et al. 2016</a>.
 NMDetective scores predict whether a premature termination codon (PTC) at a given position
 will trigger NMD and mRNA degradation, or whether the transcript will escape NMD and
 potentially produce a truncated protein.
 </p>
 
 <p>
-Scores range from approximately &minus;1 to +1. Positive values indicate that a PTC at
-that position is predicted to trigger NMD (the mRNA is degraded). Negative values indicate
+Scores range from 0 to 1. Values near 1 indicate that a PTC at
+that position is predicted to trigger NMD (the mRNA is degraded). Values near 0 indicate
 that the PTC is predicted to escape NMD (the truncated mRNA may be translated into an
-aberrant protein). Values near zero indicate intermediate or uncertain NMD efficiency.
+aberrant protein). Values in between indicate intermediate NMD efficiency.
 </p>
 
 <h3>Subtracks</h3>
 <table class="descTbl">
 <tr><th>Track</th><th>Description</th></tr>
 <tr><td><b>NMDetective-A</b></td>
     <td>Random forest model predicting NMD efficiency for all possible PTCs introduced
     by single-nucleotide variants. Explains ~71% of systematic variance in NMD
     efficiency.</td></tr>
 <tr><td><b>NMDetective-B</b></td>
     <td>Simplified decision tree model for all possible PTCs. Slightly lower accuracy
     (~68% variance explained) but more interpretable, making it suitable for
     clinical applications.</td></tr>
 <tr><td><b>NMDetective-A PTC</b></td>
     <td>Random forest model predicting NMD efficiency specifically for the first
     out-of-frame PTC introduced by frameshifting indel mutations.</td></tr>
 <tr><td><b>NMDetective-B PTC</b></td>
     <td>Decision tree model for the first out-of-frame PTC from frameshifting
     indels.</td></tr>
 </table>
 
 <h2>Display Conventions and Configuration</h2>
 <p>
-Each subtrack is displayed as a signal (bigWig) track. By default, the vertical axis
-ranges from &minus;1 to +1. Regions with positive values (predicted NMD-triggering) are
-shown above the baseline; regions with negative values (predicted NMD escape) are shown
-below.
+Each subtrack is displayed as a signal (bigWig) track. Values closer to 1 indicate
+predicted NMD-triggering, while values closer to 0 indicate predicted NMD escape.
 </p>
 <ul>
   <li><font color="#0080FF"><b>Blue tracks</b></font> (NMDetective-A and -B): predictions
     for all possible PTCs from single-nucleotide nonsense variants.</li>
   <li><font color="#009966"><b>Green tracks</b></font> (NMDetective-A PTC and -B PTC):
     predictions for the first out-of-frame PTC from frameshifting indels.</li>
 </ul>
 
 <h2>Methods</h2>
 <p>
-The NMDetective models were trained on somatic nonsense mutation data from 9,769 cancer
-patients and validated with frameshift mutations and germline variants
-(<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31659324" target="_blank">Lindeboom et al. 2019</a>).
+<b>NMDetective-A</b> and <b>NMDetective-B</b> were introduced in
+<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31659324" target="_blank">Lindeboom et al. 2019</a>,
+trained on NMD efficiency scores derived from somatic nonsense mutation data from 9,769 cancer
+patients
+(<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27618451" target="_blank">Lindeboom et al. 2016</a>),
+and tested on an independent set of frameshift mutations.
 The models incorporate the following features to predict NMD efficiency:
 </p>
 <ul>
   <li>Whether the PTC falls in the last exon</li>
   <li>Distance to the last 50 nt of the penultimate exon (the EJC-based &ldquo;50 bp rule&rdquo;)</li>
   <li>Distance from the coding start (start-proximal NMD insensitivity)</li>
   <li>Exon length</li>
   <li>mRNA half-life</li>
   <li>Distance to the downstream exon-junction complex</li>
   <li>Distance to the wild-type stop codon</li>
 </ul>
 
 <p>
 <b>NMDetective-A</b> (random forest regression) captures non-linear interactions among
 these features and achieves the highest predictive accuracy.
 <b>NMDetective-B</b> (decision tree) applies a simpler rule-based classification that
 is more transparent, with a modest reduction in accuracy.
 </p>
 
 <p>
 The predictions were generated for every possible PTC-introducing single-nucleotide
 variant and for the first out-of-frame PTC from every possible single-nucleotide
 frameshifting indel across all human protein-coding transcripts. The original bedGraph
 custom track files were downloaded from the
 <a href="https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/NMDetective/7803398" target="_blank">NMDetective Figshare page</a>
 resource and converted to bigWig format at UCSC.
 </p>
 
 <h2>Data Access</h2>
 <p>
 The data underlying these tracks can be explored interactively with the
 <a href="../cgi-bin/hgTables">Table Browser</a> or the
 <a href="../cgi-bin/hgIntegrator">Data Integrator</a>. For automated analysis,
 the data may be queried from our
 <a href="/goldenPath/help/api.html">REST API</a>. Please refer to our
 <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/soe.ucsc.edu/forum/#!forum/genome"
 target="_blank">mailing list archives</a> for questions, or our
 <a href="../FAQ/FAQdownloads.html#download36">Data Access FAQ</a> for more
 information.
 </p>
 
 <h2>Credits</h2>
 <p>
 Thanks to Rik Lindeboom for providing custom tracks and the original NMDetective data
 on <a href="https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/NMDetective/7803398"
 target="_blank">Figshare</a>.
 </p>
 
 <h2>References</h2>
 
 <p>
 Lindeboom RG, Supek F, Lehner B.
 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3664" target="_blank">
 The rules and impact of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in human cancers</a>.
 <em>Nat Genet</em>. 2016 Oct;48(10):1112-8.
 PMID: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27618451" target="_blank">27618451</a>; PMC: <a
 href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5045715/" target="_blank">PMC5045715</a>
 </p>
 
 <p>
 Lindeboom RGH, Vermeulen M, Lehner B, Supek F.
 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-019-0517-5" target="_blank">
 The impact of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay on genetic disease, gene editing and cancer
 immunotherapy</a>.
 <em>Nat Genet</em>. 2019 Nov;51(11):1645-1651.
 PMID: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31659324" target="_blank">31659324</a>; PMC: <a
 href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6858879/" target="_blank">PMC6858879</a>
 </p>