SNPmasker: automatic masking of SNPs and repeats across eukaryotic genomes.
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SUBMITTER: Andreson R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1538889 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jul
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SNPmasker: automatic masking of SNPs and repeats across eukaryotic genomes.
Andreson Reidar R Puurand Tarmo T Remm Maido M
Nucleic acids research 20060701 Web Server issue
SNPmasker is a comprehensive web interface for masking large eukaryotic genomes. The program is designed to mask SNPs from recent dbSNP database and to mask the repeats with two alternative programs. In addition to the SNP masking, we also offer population-specific substitution of SNP alleles in genomic sequence according to SNP frequencies in HapMap Phase II data. The input to SNPmasker can be defined in chromosomal coordinates or inserted as a sequence. The sequences masked by our web server a ...[more]
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