To obtain information about a single SNP the database can be searched by providing the SNP's rs-identifier from dbSNP (build 126) (3). The resulting page provides the primary information about the SNP along with its assessed functional information. The primary information includes the chromosomal location of the SNP, alleles, ancestral allele, validation status, type of genomic region, links to external databases namely dbSNP (build 126) (3), NCBI MapView (homo sapiens build 125), Ensembl (release 42) (4), Ensembl Contig (as of 15 August 2007), UCSC Genome Browser (March 2006 assembly) (17), HapMap (Rel 21a/phase II) (21) and GeneCards (ver. 2.37) (22), and the flanking sequence around the SNP. The functional information provided for each SNP includes functional category, integrated tools used, prediction results and the detailed output from each predictive tool.
