[HapMap announcements] New HapMap data release (#14, Dec04) available on project website. Click-wrap license dropped, new LD-data download option

[Gudmundur Arni Thorisson]

Dear Hapmap Announcements list subscriber. We're happy to announce that 
HapMap Dec04 data release (rel#14) is now available on the project 
website, http://www.hapmap.org and also the Japanese mirror site 
http://hapmap.jst.go.jp 1-2 days from now. Current status: 956,730 SNPs 
genotyped in CEPH, 412,669 SNPs in Han Chinese, 412,608 SNPs in 
Japanese and 432,523 SNPs in Yoruba. Please see the release notes at 
http://www.hapmap.org/downloads/index.html#release for breakdown by 
chromosome and further details about this release.

New on project website:
-As of Dec 10th, it is no longer necessary to sign a clickwrap agreement
  in order to access HapMap genotype data. Users therefore can now dump
  genotypes from GBrowse without having to log on to the website, as
  well as retrieving individual genotype data in bulk via anonymous FTP,
  previously not possible.
-LD-data now available via both new GBrowse dumper plugin and for
  bulk-download (http://www.hapmap.org/downloads/ld_data/). This is the
  same dataset we use for generating the pairwise LD-plot in GBrowse.

Individual genotypes, genotype/allele frequencies and assays can be 
downloaded in bulk
from http://www.hapmap.org/downloads/, as well as browsed graphically 
at via GBrowse at http://www.hapmap.org/cgi-perl/gbrowse/gbrowse. A 
special subset of genotype data from ENCODE regions studied in the 
project is available in http://www.hapmap.org/downloads/latest/ENCODE/. 
See the README file and http://www.hapmap.org/downloads/encode1.html 
for more information.

The HapMap database is updated monthly with data submitted to the DCC 
by centers funded by agencies in the UK, Japan, US, China and Canada. 
New frequency data area submitted to NCBI's dbSNP database within days 
and should become available also at http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/SNP/ soon 
thereafter, once NCBI has incorporated this submission into the next  
build of dbSNP.



On behalf of the HapMap Data Coordination Center (DCC) team at
CSHL, best regards.

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Gudmundur Arni Thorisson, bioinformatics researcher
Haplotype Map project DCC group leader
Steinlab, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory