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diff --git a/issues/support-searching-using-snp-names.gmi b/issues/support-searching-using-snp-names.gmi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ba9fd92 --- /dev/null +++ b/issues/support-searching-using-snp-names.gmi @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +# Support searching using SNP names + +* tags: enhancement + +SNPs are named in an rs### form (for example, rs429358). +=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-nucleotide_polymorphism#Nomenclature +We should permit the user to search genenetwork using these SNP names. Currently, we only permit searching using explicit coordinates (for example, "chr:19 position:44908684"). The user has to look up the SNP name in an external database and resolve it to coordinates before searching. This is a needless extra step and can be automated. + +Implementing this will require us to have a database (perhaps dbSNP) of all SNP names somewhere in GeneNetwork. +=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DbSNP dbSNP |