Another distinguishing feature of the F-SNP database is its integration of human-disease databases to facilitate identification of potential disease-causing SNPs as genetic markers in association studies. The F-SNP database provides a web interface that takes as input either a disease, a gene, a genomic region or a SNP identifier. If the input is a specific disease, its candidate genes, obtained from the integrated human-disease databases, are provided with their SNP information. Thus, researchers interested in a specific disease can retrieve a list of all the candidate genes relevant to this disease along with functional information for all the SNPs within each candidate gene as predicted by a variety of bioinformatics tools.
