How to open a .bin file coming from ncbi SNP database?

I am not familiar with the .bin extension and I am looking to work with the database on ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/snp/organisms/human_9606_b146_GRCh38p2/ASN1_bin/

I am looking to work with this data on either R or Python.

r snp python .bin

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updated 4.1 years ago by Ram

• written 10.5 years ago by adonisgamaliel •

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It's in binary ASN1

some tools like DataTool http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/data_specs/NCBI_data_conversion.html allow to convert asn1 to text.

IMHO, for SNP it's easier to work with the XML files.

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written 10.5 years ago by Pierre Lindenbaum

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