<p>This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p> <p>Simple sequence repeats are predominantly found in most organisms. They play
a major role in studies of genetic diversity, and are useful as diagnostic markers
for many diseases. The simple sequence repeats database (SSRD) for the human
genome was created for easy access to such repeats, for analysis, and to be used
to understand their biological significance. The data includes the abundance and
distribution of SSRs in the coding and non-coding regions of the genome, as well as
their association with the UTRs of genes. The exact locations of repeats with respect
to genomic regions (such as UTRs, exons, introns or intergenic regions) and their
association with STS markers are also highlighted. The resource will facilitate repeat
sequence analysis in the human genome and the understanding of the functional and
evolutionary significance of simple sequence repeats. SSRD is available through two
websites, http://www.ccmb.res.in/ssr and http://www.ingenovis.com/ssr.</p>
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Comp Funct Genomics. 2003 Jun; 4(3):342-345