Thanks for the explanation, Vincent. GenomeInfoDb has NCBI and UCSC support, 
but doesn't seem to support the dbSNP format. Perhaps this should be added?

> seqlevelsStyle(seqnames(SNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP.20120608))
Error in .guessSpeciesStyle(seqnames) : 
  The style does not have a compatible entry for the species supported by 
Seqname. Please
  see genomeStyles() for supported species/style

On 18/06/2014, at 12:40 PM, Vincent Carey <[email protected]> wrote:

> it is the convention used in dbSNP, just propagated directly.  indeed one 
> typically has to relabel, but there
> is seqnamesStyle infrastructure in GenomeInfoDb that may help.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Peter Hickey <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a reason why the seqnames of SNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP.20120608 (and 
> possibly the other SNPlocs.*) use the prefix "ch" instead of "chr"? E.g. 
> "ch1" instead of "chr1". It doesn't seem to fit with any standard way of 
> naming chromosomes and means that these need to be renamed to use with most 
> other Bioconductor data sources.
> Thanks,
> Pete
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