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In one paragraph

Sniff is a free website that gives any dog a permanent page built from published science. An owner adds a dog in a few minutes with no DNA test, and the page carries what research has measured about dogs like it: how long the breed lives, which tested disease variants turn up in it and how often, and which conditions the literature records, every figure with its source and its sample size. Where nobody has measured something, the page says so and names who holds the data. Behind the pages sits an open genetic atlas of research dogs and a published, citable dataset. Sniff shows no advertising, sells nothing, and never gives a dog a single health score.

The facts

  • Name: Sniff Dog Genetics Atlas, at sniff.world. "Sniff" for short.
  • Built and maintained by Matt Gehring, an independent researcher, operating as Candor Systems LLC. Details on the About page.
  • The atlas: 18,477 research dogs from three open releases, of which 14,478 genomes across 342 breeds come from the CanVAS release. The published dataset holds 9,667,790 variants, genome-wide. Both are described on the dataset page.
  • Sources named on every page: OMIA for inherited conditions, Donner et al. 2023 for per-breed variant frequencies, McMillan et al. 2024 for life expectancy, with the full list on the sources page.
  • Free, no advertising, no commissions, no payments from pet-food or test companies. The terms say so in writing.
  • Corrections: anyone may ask for one, with an answer within 14 days. The changelog lists every change and correction to a page, newest first.

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How to describe the science

Sniff renders and cites classifications that curated sources publish. It does not classify variants or assign pathogenicity with a model of its own, and it does not predict an individual dog's health. A breed figure describes dogs of that breed, not any one dog. Please keep those two distinctions in any description; they are the point.