[R] RSNPper SNPinfo and making it handle a vector

[Farrel Buchinsky]

Doesn't this provide a programmer with the information that he would need.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP/SNPeutils.htm

"Vincent Carey 525-2265" <stvjc at channing.harvard.edu> wrote in message 
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> another good question.  dbSNP did not, at the time RSNPper was created,
> provide easy programmatic access to such nicely curated/amalgamated data 
> from various
> sources.  i suspect that is still the case.  but there may be other web 
> services
> providing information on SNPs, where a clear specification exists 
> regarding what you
> issue and what you get back, and what you get back tells you things like 
> SNP
> location, role, relation to genes, population frequency, etc..  if you 
> find
> one and let me know about it i will consider writing another package to 
> retrieve
> SNP-related metadata.
>
> you might look at the biomaRt package in Bioconductor and see if its snp 
> query resolution
> facilities meet your needs.
>
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