If I want to download all the indels from dbSNP, do I download the SNP table? If so, where is it?

Before I give you the steps to download the SNP table, I would like to mention that you can also get all the indels housed in dbSNP using an Entrez Search:

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Go to the Entrez SNP page, click on the grey “Limits” tab near the top of the page.

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Once you are on the limits page, go to the “SNP Class” box, and click on “in del”.

Here are the steps for downloading the SNP table:

1.

Go to the left blue side bar on the dbSNP home page, and Click on “General”.

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From the released set of choices, click on “FTP Download”.

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For the purpose of this example, I will assume you need the SNP table for human. To find it, you would go to the human ​/database/organism_data/ directory.

(10/08/08)