SNPchiMp v.2: An Open Access Web Tool for SNP Data Management on Bovine, Porcine and Equine Livestock

Abstract Text: Since the beginning of the genomic era, the SNP chip market in livestock species has grown almost exponentially. Today, researchers are asked to deal with many SNP chips on daily basis, and this requires having the (general and specific) information on the SNPs available and at hand. However, the information is often difficult to obtain (e.g. data on chips no longer on the market), integrate and standardise. Here we present SNPchiMp v.2, a multi-species database linked to an open-access web-based interface that solves many of these problems. This second version of the tool includes 9 bovine, 2 porcine and 1 equine SNP chips, marketed by Illumina, Affymetrix and GeneSeek, and genomic exchange indexes from Interbull (for bovine data). The interest of the animal genetics community on the first version of this tool has rapidly increased as have the number of chips and species included.

Keywords: SNPchip, Database, Web-interface