SNPdbe: constructing an nsSNP functional impacts database.

TitleSNPdbe: constructing an nsSNP functional impacts database.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2012
AuthorsSchaefer, C, Meier, A, Rost, B, Bromberg, Y
JournalBioinformatics
Volume28
Issue4
Pagination601-2
Date Published2012 Feb 15
ISSN1367-4811
KeywordsAlgorithms, Amino Acid Substitution, Databases, Genetic, Humans, Internet, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Proteins
Abstract

UNLABELLED: Many existing databases annotate experimentally characterized single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Each non-synonymous SNP (nsSNP) changes one amino acid in the gene product (single amino acid substitution;SAAS). This change can either affect protein function or be neutral in that respect. Most polymorphisms lack experimental annotation of their functional impact. Here, we introduce SNPdbe-SNP database of effects, with predictions of computationally annotated functional impacts of SNPs. Database entries represent nsSNPs in dbSNP and 1000 Genomes collection, as well as variants from UniProt and PMD. SAASs come from >2600 organisms; 'human' being the most prevalent. The impact of each SAAS on protein function is predicted using the SNAP and SIFT algorithms and augmented with experimentally derived function/structure information and disease associations from PMD, OMIM and UniProt. SNPdbe is consistently updated and easily augmented with new sources of information. The database is available as an MySQL dump and via a web front end that allows searches with any combination of organism names, sequences and mutation IDs.AVAILABILITY: http://www.rostlab.org/services/snpdbe.

DOI10.1093/bioinformatics/btr705
Alternate JournalBioinformatics
PubMed ID22210871
PubMed Central IDPMC3278761