Source studies

The studies behind the Atlas

Every dog in the Sniff Atlas comes from somewhere. These are the projects we draw from — CanVAS as the v1 substrate, GRLS as the densest within-breed slice, Darwin's Ark next on the ingest roadmap. Plus the catalogue we publish on top of them.

The dataset we publish

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Sniff Atlas v1.0.1

The first open, breed-stratified catalogue of common canine coding variants with calibrated AI pathogenicity (ESM2 AUC 0.935 vs OMIA) and an evidence-graded knowledge graph. 9.67 million variants. 188 breeds. CanFam4. The substrate every breed page and gene page is computed from.

Source studies

In the Atlas

14,478 dogs

CanVAS

The aggregated canine variant atlas behind every dog in Sniff.

In the Atlas

3,197 dogs

Golden Retriever Lifetime Study

3,000+ Goldens followed for life. The biggest within-breed longitudinal dataset in canine science.

In the Atlas

0 dogs

Darwin's Ark

Open-source canine science with 40,000+ owner-uploaded dogs and growing.

In the Atlas

0 dogs

NHGRI Dog Genome Project

722 dogs from the Plassais 2019 NIH/NHGRI release — the public-domain breed-reference cohort.