If you are working with human data and have a license for DNASTAR’s Variant Annotation Database (VAD), you can access Mastermind Literature Citations (among many other databases) for the found variants. This capability was introduced in Lasergene version 17.2.
To indicate that you would like to import the VAD annotations during project setup, check the “Variant Annotation Database” box. This can be done:
•In the SeqMan NGen wizard’s Assembly screen.
•During a variant project setup in the ArrayStar wizard’s Set Up Preprocessing screen.
As with other VAD annotations, information from the Mastermind database can be applied as one or more columns in the SNP Table using the Manage Columns dialog.
Information about each available column can be found in Table Column Descriptions, which is organized alphabetically.
The following image shows an example of a SNP Table after applying several Mastermind columns.
Note that the right-most column consists of links to the Mastermind database. Click a link to go to the Mastermind entry. This entry contains graphics related to how frequently cited the SNP is and provides links to recent published citations related to the SNP.
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