SNP Terminology development with VISTA

Designing a genomic variant ontology for common use within the open i2b2 community poses a unique challenge.   Variants may be defined across several domains:  dbSNP rs number, HGVS name, or gene/flanking sequence pairs. It is often difficult to know if variants from different domains are in fact equivalent.  This project investigates ways to form a common basis for describing variants.

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View Presentation Slides from 2011 AMIA Summit Meeting on Translational Bioinformatics, San Francisco, CA, March 7-13, 2011

Software

Vista browser package for developers  Package containing source code, data and developer's guide.

Vista browser package for users  Package containing plugin jar, data files and User's guide for running the VISTA browser within version 1.6 of the i2b2 workbench.

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