What is "snpedia"

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 and similar companies.

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.