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From: Arun Isaac
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 17:05:21 +0000
Subject: Support searching for SNP names.

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+# 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.
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+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
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