title: Easy retrieval of single amino-acid polymorphisms and phenotype information using SwissVar.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  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.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The SwissVar portal is available at www.expasy.org/swissvar
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  anais.mottaz@isb-sib.ch; lina.yip@isb-sib.ch
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
authors.affiliation: Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics , Centre Médical Universitaire, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland. anais.mottaz@isb-sib.ch
authors.forename: Anaïs
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mottaz
authors.forename: Fabrice P A
authors.initials: FP
authors.lastname: David
authors.forename: Anne-Lise
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Veuthey
authors.forename: Yum L
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Yip
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000737:chemistry*; D030562:Databases, Protein; D010641:Phenotype; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D040901:Proteomics / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D011506:Proteins