Table 2.

External resources used to create SNP customised database

Acronym	Name	Link	Resource
dbSNP	Single Nucleotide Polymorphism database	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/	SNPs
GO	Gene Ontology	http://www.geneontology.org/	Genes and gene product attributes
KEGG	Kyoto Encyclopaedia of Genes and Genomes	http://www.genome.jp/kegg/	Biological pathways
UniProt	Universal Protein Resource	http://www.uniprot.org/	Protein sequences and functional information
QTLdb++	Animal Quantitative Trait Locus database	http://www.animalgenome.org/QTLdb/	Quantitative Trait Loci data (QTL)
OMIA++	Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals	http://omia.angis.org.au/	Genes, inherited disorders and traits
HomoloGene		http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/homologene	Homolog detection

⁺⁺Not applicable to Homo sapiens