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HGBASE: a database of SNPs and other variations in and around human genes

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Title:HGBASE: a database of SNPs and other variations in and around human genes
Creators Name:Brookes, A.J., Lehvaslaiho, H., Siegfried, M., Boehm, J.G., Yuan, Y.P., Sarkar, C.M., Bork, P. and Ortigao, F.
Abstract:Human genome polymorphism is expected to play a key role in defining the etiologic basis of phenotypic differences between individuals in aspects such as drug responses and common disease predisposition. Relevant functional DNA changes will probably be located in or near to transcribed sequences, and include many single nucleotide polymorphisms. To aid the future analysis of such genome variation, HGBASE (Human Genic Bi-Allelic SEquences) was constructed as a means to gather human gene-linked polymorphisms from all possible public sources, and show these as a non-redundant set of records in a standardized and user-friendly database endowed with text and sequence based search facilities. After 1 year of presence on the WWW, the HGBASE project has compiled data for over 22 000 records, and this number continues to triple every 6-12 months with data harvested or submitted from all major public genome databases and published literature from the previous decade. Extensive annotation enhancement, internal consistency checking and manual review of every record is undertaken to address potential errors and deficiencies sometimes present in the original source data. The fully polished and comprehensive database is made freely available to all at http://hgbase.cgr.ki.se
Keywords:Factual Databases, Genetic Variation, Internet, Single Nucleotide Polymorphism
Source:Nucleic Acids Research
ISSN:0305-1048
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Volume:28
Number:1
Page Range:356-360
Date:1 January 2000
Official Publication:http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/28/1/356
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