NCBI news (SuDoc HE 20.3624/2:) by U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services
English | July 12, 2012 | ASIN: B00010UFXQ | 613 Pages | PDF | 28 MB
Starting September 1, 2017, NCBI will not accept non-human variant data submissions to dbSNP and dbVar. Any non-human data that is already in the databases or that is submitted before September 1, 2017 will continue to be available via the dbSNP and dbVar FTP download sites.

Starting September 1, 2017, NCBI will not accept non-human variant data submissions to dbSNP and dbVar. Any non-human data that is already in the databases or that is submitted before September 1, 2017 will continue to be available via the dbSNP and dbVar FTP download sites.
NCBI will phase out support for non-human organisms in dbSNP and dbVar following this timeline:
*September 1, 2017 - dbSNP and dbVar stop accepting submissions of non-human variant data.
*November 1, 2017 - dbSNP and dbVar interactive websites and related NCBI services stop presenting non-human variant data. The data will, however, continue to be available for download on the dbSNP and dbVar FTP sites.
We would like to thank all the submitters and users who have supported dbSNP and dbVar throughout the years. If you want to submit non-human variation data now or after September 1, 2017, European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) - one of our partners in the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) - is accepting these data in the European Variation Archive.