Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on July 31, 2006
Bioinformatics 2006 22(20):2567-2569; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl421
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OSIRIS: a tool for retrieving literature about sequence variants
Research Unit on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB), IMIM Universitat Pompeu Fabra, carrer Dr Aiguader 88, E-08003 Barcelona, Spain
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Summary: Sequence variants, in particular single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), are key elements for the identification of genes associated with complex diseases and with particular drug responses. The search for literature about sequence variation is hampered by the large number of allelic variants reported for many genes and by the variability in both gene and sequence variants nomenclatures. We describe OSIRIS, a search tool that integrates different sources of information with the aim to retrieve literature about sequence variation of a gene. In addition, it provides a method to link a dbSNP entry with the articles referring to it.
Availability: OSIRIS is available for public use at http://ibi.imim.es/
Contact: fsanz{at}imim.es
Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Received on April 19, 2006; revised on July 13, 2006; accepted on July 28, 2006
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