how to query dbsnp locally

Question

[tariktj]

I need to query dbSNP locally, but I am puzzled with all the files I found on the ftp site. Can anyone guide me in this? which files should I download in order to query human snps? and are there tools already made to querying dbsnp locally? Many thanks for any help !

[DVA]

If you just want to compare your experiment variants to known SNPs in dbSNP, you can use any annotation software, such as ANNOVAR for query purpose. What exactly is your task?