SNPTracker: A Swift Tool for Comprehensive Tracking and Unifying dbSNP rsIDs and Genomic Coordinates of Massive Sequence Variants

摘要

The reference single nucleotide polymorphism (rs) ID in dbSNP () is a key resource identifier, which is widely used in human genetics and genomics studies. However, its application is often complicated by the varied IDs of different versions. Here, we developed a user-friendly tool, SNPTracker, for comprehensively tracking and unifying the rs IDs and genomic coordinates of massive sequence variants at a time. It worked perfectly, and had much higher accuracy and capacity than two alternative utilities in our proof-of-principle examples. SNPTracker will greatly facilitate genetic data exchange and integration in the postgenome-wide association study era.