Table 2 |
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Comparisons between SNPHunter and other publicly available software/tool. |
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| Software/Web tool |
Type |
Maintenance requirement |
SNP search related functions |
Primer design |
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| SNP search |
Arbitrary flanking sequence length |
Nearby SNP annotation |
SNP selection interface |
Graphic SNP illustration |
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| NCBI dbSNPa |
Web-Server |
None for user; server contains latest updated data |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| SNPper |
Web-Server |
None for user; server needs to update periodically |
Yesb |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
| SNPHunter |
Web-Client (depends on dbSNP for new SNP retrieval) |
None for user; rely on dbSNP for data update |
Yesb |
Yes |
Yes |
Yesc |
Yes |
No |
| SNPicker |
Web-Client (depends on NEB restriction-enzyme data) |
None for user; rely on NEB for data update |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| SNPBox |
Web-Server |
None |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| viewGene |
Software depends on annotated record |
Needs to download annotated data |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
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a dbSNP's Entrez query. b Both SNPper and SNPHunter can do batch search for a list of genes instead of single gene at a time. c SNPHunter offers automatic SNP selection as well as manual selection. |
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Wang et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2005 6:60 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-6-60 |
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