dbSNP download

[ddaneels]

Hi everyone,

I would like to import the dbSNP database into CLC Bio to use it for filterning. Where can I download this? And which format is the best?

I'm analyzing human exome data.

[gringer]

Have a look at this NCBI document:

Downloading From dbSNP’s FTP Site

[gringer]

Er, that was in response to the topic of this thread, not your post.

[Qwerty0]

Uh, just to make sure future readers are headed in the right direction, dbSNP's database format is a chore to parse. UCSC's version is better for most purposes. It contains less information, but it's in an easy, tab-delimited format:

http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/database/

(download snp137Common.txt.gz)

The table description is here:

http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTables?db=hg19&hgta_group=varRep&hgta_track=snp137Common&hgta_table=snp137Common&hgta_doSchema=describe+table+schema