Hello

I have seen that dbSNP makes human SNP data available in VCF 4.0 format but not for other organisms. I would like to have bovine SNP data in VCF format for use with VCFTools.

Does anyone have any experience of converting dbSNP XML or ASN1 into VCF? Is there a resource available to do this? Or perhaps there is a tool to convert dbSNP into an intermediate format which would them be converted to VCF. I couldn't find anything along these lines but I wouldn't want to reinvent the wheel.

Or perhaps I am missing an alternative approach such as another variant file format which there exists the equivalent of VCFTools

Does anyone know if dbSNP have any plans to release data for other species in VCF format?

Thanks a lot

asked 21 May '12, 16:19

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do you only need CHROM/POS/ID/REF/ALT or do you need the genotypes too ?

(21 May '12, 16:35) SupportRep

genotypes would be good but not essential

(21 May '12, 16:35) Customer

Does any of you were able to find out the answer to this question?? I have the same problem as well :(

(21 May '12, 16:35) Customer

I found something in this blog. Perhaps it is useful for you statsandgenomes.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/a-python-script-to-make-a-dbsnp-vcf-file/

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answered 21 May '12, 16:27

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now, is there any tool to convert dbSNP to VCF format?

(21 May '12, 16:27) Customer
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