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dbSNP News

News and announcements from the database of Short Genetic Variations (dbSNP).

• NCBI Insights: dbSNP Enhances Scalability, Data Diversity, and Accessibility March 31, 2023
  ​https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2023/03/30/dbsnp-scalability-diversity-accessibility/​
• dbSNP Build 156 Release January 30, 2023
  ​Build 156 of dbSNP (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp/) with over 1.1 billion RefSNP (rs) records across the human genome is now available. Build 156 includes data from 1000Genomes, TOPMed, gnomAD, and many other submitters, as well as NCBI ALFA release 2 with over 900 million rs and allele frequencies from dbGaP studies. All data is open-access and unrestri […]
• dbSNP Human Build 155 Release (>1 Billion RS) June 29, 2021
  ​dbSNP (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp/) is pleased to announce the release of Build 155 and reaching the milestone of over 1 billion RefSNP (rs) records. Build 155 includes NCBI ALFA release 2 with over 900 million rs and allele frequency from dbGaP studies along with data from TopMed, GnomAD, and many other submitters. All data are available as open-acce […]
• dbSNP Human Build 154 Release + ALFA data June 1, 2020
  ​dbSNP Human Build 154 Release  This release include the new ALFA (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp/docs/gsr/alfa/) RefSNP (rs) and allele frequency.  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp/  BUILD SUMMARY ============== Build 154 Total RS count = 729,491,867 https://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/snp/redesign/latest_release/release_notes.txt  BUILD RELEASE PRODUCTS =========== […]
• Thank You Valued dbSNP Users August 1, 2019
  ​Dear dbSNP Users,Once in a while, it's nice to send our users and submitters a little thank you. dbSNP is over 20 years old now and it is due to our users that submitted data, using our services and providing feedback that we have achieved this milestone and continue to serve the global community. dbSNP's open-access data and services have become […]
• NCBI Webinar: New Variation Services for Normalizing, Remapping, and Annotating Variants (Feb 6, 2019 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM EST) January 15, 2019
  ​New Variation Services for Normalizing, Remapping, and Annotating VariantsDate: Wednesday, February 6, 2019Time: 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM ESTRegistration:  https://bit.ly/2McN7QPIn this webinar you will learn how to use a new set of NCBI variation services (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/variation/services/) that rely on a variant data model called SPDI (Sequence […]
• dbSNP Human Build 152: Official Product Release from the New Build System December 11, 2018
  dbSNP Build 152 using the new build system (http://bit.ly/2QaAvz9) with SPDI variant notation (http://bit.ly/2QChDrS) is now available on FTP site and the new RefSNP web page.  This release is a small incremental update from dbSNP build 151 and is provided for users to begin testing and integrating the new build products into their workflow.    BUILD SUMMARY […]
• ANNOUNCEMENT: dbSNP Human Build 151 Double in Size to 660 Million Reference SNP (rs) April 24, 2018
  ​ ANNOUNCEMENT: dbSNP Human Build 151 Double in Size to 660 Million Reference SNP (rs)  April 24, 2018  ==============================================================================REMINDER: Important dbSNP changes and notifications https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mailman/pipermail/dbsnp-announce/2018q2/000186.html============================================== […]
• dbSNP important updates and notifications April 20, 2018
  ​Dear dbSNP Users, dbSNP is transitioning to the new design (https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2017/07/07/dbsnp-redesign-supports-future-data-expansion/) with new products ready for testing including new JSON data files, RefSNP page, and API. 1) The upcoming human Build 151 release (betweenApril-May, 2018) is the last build that dbSNP will provide relati […]
• dbSNP BUILD 151: chicken, corn, cottonwood, dog, horse, rice, sheep, soybean, and zebu November 3, 2017
  ​IMPORTANT NOTIFICATIONSStarting on September 1, 2017, NCBI has begun phasing out support for non-human organism data in dbSNP and dbVar.  Please read more here (https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2017/05/09/phasing-out-support-for-non-human-genome-organism-data-in-dbsnp-and-dbvar/).  Build 151 is the last release for non-human organisms with data updates […]
• NIH Seeks Comment on Proposal to Update Data Management of Genomic Summary Results September 21, 2017
  ​September 20, 2017NIH Seeks Comment on Proposal to Update Data Management of Genomic Summary Results Today, the NIH issued a notice in its Guide to Grants and Contracts seeking public comment on a proposed update to the data management of genomic summary results under the NIH Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) Policy. The proposed update to the GDS Policy's da […]
• Newly designed dbSNP RefSNP Page (Alpha version) September 12, 2017
  NCBI dbSNP is pleased to announce a newly designed Reference SNP Report webpage (Alpha version).https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2017/09/12/ncbi-newly-designed-dbsnp-refsnp-report-alpha/Please use the green 'FEEDBACK' button on the left margin of the page to share your feedbacks and comments.
• dbSNP BUILD 150: thale cress, chicken, corn, cow, horse, rhesus monkey, mouse, pig, sheep, zebrafish, and zebu September 7, 2017
  ​IMPORTANT NOTIFICATIONS1)            NCBI will phase out support for non-human organism data in dbSNP and dbVar beginning on September 1, 2017. Please read more here (https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2017/05/09/phasing-out-support-for-non-human-genome-organism-data-in-dbsnp-and-dbvar/).2)            Over the next year, NCBI will be introducing changes […]
• Reminder of Recent Announcements September 5, 2017
  dbSNP architecture redesign supports future human variation data expansion; changes to be introduced over the next year (https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2017/07/07/dbsnp-redesign-supports-future-data-expansion/)Phasing out support for non-human genome organism data in dbSNP and dbVar (https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2017/05/09/phasing-out-support […]
• NCBI to phase out support for non-human organism data in dbSNP and dbVar May 16, 2017
  ​dbSNP and dbVar archive, process, display and report information related to germline and somatic variations from multiple species. These two databases have grown rapidly as sequencing and other discovery technologies have evolved, and now contain nearly two billion variants from over 360 species. Based on projected growth and the resources required to archi […]