title: Varietas: a functional variation database portal.
abstract: Current high-throughput technologies for investigating genomic variation in large population based samples produce data on a scale of millions of variations. Browsing through these results and identifying relevant functional variations is a major hurdle in these genome-wide association studies. In order to help researchers locate the most promising associations, we have developed a web-based database portal called Varietas. Varietas can be used for retrieving information concerning genomic variations such as single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), copy number variants and insertions/deletions, while enabling users to annotate large number of variations in a batch like manner and to find information about related genes, phenotypes and diseases. Varietas also links out to various external genomic databases, allowing users to quickly browse through a set of variations and follow the most promising leads. Varietas periodically integrates data from the major SNP and genome databases, including Ensembl genome database, NCBI dbSNP database, The Genomic Association Database and SNPedia. Database URL: http://kokki.uku.fi/bioinformatics/varietas/
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics, Department of Neurobiology, A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences and Biocenter Finland, University of Eastern Finland, P.O. Box 1627, FIN-70211 Kuopio, Finland. jussi.paananen@uef.fi
authors.forename: Jussi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Paananen
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ciszek
authors.forename: Garry
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wong
mesh_terms: D056915:DNA Copy Number Variations; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D014584:User-Computer Interface