title: interPopula: a Python API to access the HapMap Project dataset.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The HapMap project is a publicly available catalogue of common genetic variants that occur in humans, currently including several million SNPs across 1115 individuals spanning 11 different populations. This important database does not provide any programmatic access to the dataset, furthermore no standard relational database interface is provided.
  
  
  RESULTS
  interPopula is a Python API to access the HapMap dataset. interPopula provides integration facilities with both the Python ecology of software (e.g. Biopython and matplotlib) and other relevant human population datasets (e.g. Ensembl gene annotation and UCSC Known Genes). A set of guidelines and code examples to address possible inconsistencies across heterogeneous data sources is also provided.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  interPopula is a straightforward and flexible Python API that facilitates the construction of scripts and applications that require access to the HapMap dataset.
authors.affiliation: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, L3 5QA, Liverpool, UK. tra@popgen.eu
authors.forename: Tiago
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Antao
mesh_terms: D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D006801:Humans; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D044382:Population Groups / Q000235:genetics; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration