The BED format is now available as output from dbSNP Batch Query search.
The dbSNP BED files were derived from dbSNP RS Docsum ASN.1.
The dbSNP BED column descriptions and mapping to ASN.1 fields are described here
(ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/snp/specs/BED_rsDocsum_Mapping.README.txt).
For a general description of the BED file format and how it is used, see:
http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~kent/gbd.html#BED
dbSNP BED files will also be provided with the data separated by chromosome in
upcoming dbSNP FTP dumps and in future build releases.
Please send corrections and comments to snp-admin@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Regards,
dbSNP Production Team
March 19, 2012