SNPmasker: automatic masking of SNPs and repeats across eukaryotic genomes
Open Access
- 1 July 2006
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Nucleic Acids Research
- Vol. 34 (Web Server), W651-W655
- https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkl125
Abstract
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 are most useful as a preliminary step for different primer and probe design tasks. The service is available at and is free for all users.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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