dbSNP: the NCBI database of genetic variation

S T Sherry; M H Ward; M Kholodov; J Baker; L Phan; E M Smigielski; K Sirotkin

doi:10.1093/nar/29.1.308

dbSNP: the NCBI database of genetic variation

Nucleic Acids Res. 2001 Jan 1;29(1):308-11. doi: 10.1093/nar/29.1.308.

Authors

S T Sherry¹, M H Ward, M Kholodov, J Baker, L Phan, E M Smigielski, K Sirotkin

Affiliation

¹ National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20894, USA. sherry@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Abstract

In response to a need for a general catalog of genome variation to address the large-scale sampling designs required by association studies, gene mapping and evolutionary biology, the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) has established the dbSNP database [S.T.Sherry, M.Ward and K. Sirotkin (1999) Genome Res., 9, 677-679]. Submissions to dbSNP will be integrated with other sources of information at NCBI such as GenBank, PubMed, LocusLink and the Human Genome Project data. The complete contents of dbSNP are available to the public at website: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SNP. The complete contents of dbSNP can also be downloaded in multiple formats via anonymous FTP at ftp://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp/.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Animals
Biotechnology
Databases, Factual*
Genetic Variation
Humans
Information Services
Internet
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide / genetics*
United States