title: Searching NCBI's dbSNP database.
abstract: The Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism database (dbSNP) is a variation database at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). It is a public repository of submitted nucleotide variations and is part of NCBI's search and retrieval system Entrez. This unit describes two basic protocols to search dbSNP effectively, one to perform a text-based search and another to perform a sequence-based search. The unit also describes one of the result display formats called GeneView to obtain information about all submitted SNPs in a particular gene.
authors.affiliation: NIH Library, Office of Research Services, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Medha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bhagwat
mesh_terms: D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D009317:National Library of Medicine (U.S.); D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D014481:United States