[HapMap announcements] New HapMap data release (#12, Oct04) available on project website. New GBrowse features

[Gudmundur Arni Thorisson]

Dear Hapmap Announcements list subscriber. We're happy to announce that 
HapMap Oct04 data release (#12) is now available on the project 
website, http://www.hapmap.org and the Japanese mirror site 
http://hapmap.jst.go.jp/. This release contains 752,208 genotype sets 
from the 90 CEPH-panel samples, totalling 67,698,720 genotypes. 
Absolute number of genotyped SNPs is slightly less, as a fraction of 
the SNPs have been genotyped more than once by HapMap genotyping 
centers.

   As with previous HapMap data releases, frequencies, individual 
genotypes (requires registration) 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 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.
   New frequency data since last month will be 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.

Numerous new website features have been added since last month:
-Pie-shaped allele frequency glyph replacing horizontal-bars glyph
-Pairwise marker LD plugin, shows inverted-pyramid plot
-SNP discovery coverate & heterozygosity track


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