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SNPedia (pronounced "snipedia") is a wiki-based bioinformatics web site that serves as a database of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Each article on a SNP provides a short description, links to scientific articles and personal genomics web sites, as well as microarray information about that SNP. Thus SNPedia may support the interpretation of results of personal genotyping from, e.g., 23andMe, Navigenics, deCODEme, or Knome. SNPedia is a semantic wiki, powered by MediaWiki and the Semantic MediaWiki extension. SNPedia was created, and is run by, geneticist Greg Lennon and programmer Mike Cariaso, who at the time of the site's founding were both located in Bethesda, Maryland. , the website has 73,310 SNPs in its database. The number of SNPs in SNPedia has doubled roughly once every 14 months since August 2007.〔(SNPedia: a wiki supporting personal genome annotation, interpretation and analysis ), Michael Cariaso and Greg Lennon, ''Nucleic Acids Research'', 2011, 1–5〕 ==Promethease== An associated freeware computer program called (Promethease ), also developed by the SNPedia team, allows users to compare personal genetics results against the SNPedia database, generating a report with information about a person's attributes, such as propensity to diseases, based on the presence of specific SNPs within their genome.〔 In May 2008 Cariaso, using Promethease, won an online contest sponsored by 23andMe to determine as much information as possible about an anonymous woman based only on her genome. Cariaso won in all three categories of "accuracy, creativity and cleverness".〔(And the Winner Is... ), Matthew Crenson, ''The Spittoon'', May 14, 2008〕 In 2009, the anonymous woman ("Lilly Mendel") was revealed to be 23andMe co-founder Linda Avey, allowing a direct comparison between her actual traits and those predicted by Promethease a year earlier. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SNPedia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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