Easy retrieval of single amino-acid polymorphisms and phenotype information using SwissVar
Open Access
- 26 January 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Bioinformatics
- Vol. 26 (6), 851-852
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btq028
Abstract
Summary: The SwissVar portal provides access to a comprehensive collection of single amino acid polymorphisms and diseases in the UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot database via a unique search engine. In particular, it gives direct access to the newly improved Swiss-Prot variant pages. The key strength of this portal is that it provides a possibility to query for similar diseases, as well as the underlying protein products and the molecular details of each variant. In the context of the recently proposed molecular view on diseases, the SwissVar portal should be in a unique position to provide valuable information for researchers and to advance research in this area. Availability: The SwissVar portal is available at www.expasy.org/swissvar Contact:anais.mottaz@isb-sib.ch; lina.yip@isb-sib.ch Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.Keywords
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