> I am not a card-carrying Bioinformatician or Biostatistician. At the risk of > demonstrating naivete let me ask "if you have reservations about snpper and > its durability why not query dbSNP?" : > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP/ > > > That may be easy for me to "say" since I don't have the skills to do the > programming, I am a pediatric otolaryngologist.
another good question. dbSNP did not, at the time RSNPper was created, provide easy programmatic access to such nicely curated/amalgamated data from various sources. i suspect that is still the case. but there may be other web services providing information on SNPs, where a clear specification exists regarding what you issue and what you get back, and what you get back tells you things like SNP location, role, relation to genes, population frequency, etc.. if you find one and let me know about it i will consider writing another package to retrieve SNP-related metadata. you might look at the biomaRt package in Bioconductor and see if its snp query resolution facilities meet your needs. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
