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<p>Dear Ensembl team<br>
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<p> The European Variation Archive has been in the process of
importing all non-human RefSNP (RS) accessioned variants from
dbSNP (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/eva/?Help#key-steps-transitional-process">https://www.ebi.ac.uk/eva/?Help#key-steps-transitional-process</a>).<br>
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The EVA is now happy to announce the preview of the first RefSNP
release, which includes RS accessioned variants from species such
as mouse, pig, fruitfly, zebrafish, arabidopsis and more. Before
the official release is made public, we wanted to select a number
of individuals whose species of interest is included in the first
release, and provide them access to these files to determine their
functionality and suggest improvements.<br>
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The release will consist of a collection of files organised by
species that list all the RS IDs for variants stored in the
European Variation Archive. The files include current RS
accessioned variants in use, deprecated IDs, as well as unmapped
variants. They can all be found here: <br>
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<b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/eva/rs_releases/release_0_preview/">ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/eva/rs_releases/release_0_preview/</a></b><br>
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More information regarding the format of the general release can be
found in the ""README_general_info.txt"", while species specific
information can be found in ""README_species_issues.txt"".<br>
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Please do take a look at the files for your species of interest. We
hope the variants included, as well as the format they are presented
in are useful. <br>
As we intend to make these releases at regular intervals, any
comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. <br>
Feedback can be provided using the short survey: <b><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf0CUbqmA2lIKF3oI5yMrqxRsnsQwSjGKA7ViS68WNJP3Ob5A/viewform?usp=sf_link">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf0CUbqmA2lIKF3oI5yMrqxRsnsQwSjGKA7ViS68WNJP3Ob5A/viewform?usp=sf_link</a></b><br>
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Many thanks for your time and effort and we look forward to hearing
any comments you may have.
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Baron Koylass
Helpdesk Bioinformation
The European Variation Archive
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SD, UK
E: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Bkoylass@ebi.ac.uk">Bkoylass@ebi.ac.uk</a></pre>
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