[HapMap announcements] New HapMap data release (#13, Nov04) available on project website. Data on 4x populations, new GBrowse features

[Gudmundur Arni Thorisson]

Dear Hapmap Announcements list subscriber. We're happy to announce that 
HapMap Nov04 data release (#13) 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. For the first time we 
present genotypes from all four HapMap populations under study: 856,726 
SNPs genotyped in CEPH, 386,323 SNPs in Han Chinese, 386,274 SNPs in 
Japanese and 406,783 SNPs in Yoruba. Please see the release notes at 
http://www.hapmap.org/downloads/index.html#releases for breakdown by 
chromosome and further details about this release.

   Numerous website features have been added since last month:
-Allele frequency 'pie' glyph now shows frequencies for all 4x 
populations
-Pairwise marker LD plugin can now show pyramid plots for two 
populations side by side, for easy comparison
-New SNP details page

Individual genotypes (requires registration), 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