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Pig Genome Newsletter #086
From: "Rothschild, Max F [AN S]" <mfrothsc@iastate.edu>
To: angenmap@animalgenome.org
Subject: US Pig Genome Newsletter #86
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:34:33 -0500
P I G G E N O M E U P D A T E
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A Bimonthly Newsletter of the U.S. Pig Genome Coordination Program
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* <angenmap@animalgenome.org> *
* September 1, 2007 *
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1. SNP chip under discussion
2. The Swine Genome Sequencing Workshop to be held October 26th in Paris
3. Improvements to the Animal QTLdb have recently been made
4. The new pig oligo arrays are here and can be ordered
5. Upcoming meetings ( 3 items )
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SNP chip under discussion. One of the issues being discussed is the need for
a SNP chip in pigs. There has been some development in this area and a
"private" chip of about 7.5K SNPs is under manufacture by Illumina for a
group of European scientists. Gary Rohrer has agreed to head a committee of
interested researchers to work on developing a 10K chip and a group of
scientists led by the University of Illinois put in a proposal for a 50K chip
to be funded in part by USDA.
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The Swine Genome Sequencing Workshop is being held October 26th in Paris. The
meeting will include specific issues of the sequencing project, identifying
approaches to ensure broad and rapid utilization of the sequence information,
developing educational programs, and examining ways to find additional
financial support. For more information please see www.piggenome.org .
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Improvements to the Animal QTLdb have recently been made by the
Bioinformatics Coordinator and his team. New data including mapping of Affy
array elements to QTL maps for pigs and cattle and SNPs stored in Genbank to
the respective chicken, pigs and cattle QTL maps have been added to the QTLdb
(http://www.animalgenome.org/QTLdb). If they is any additional information
that you would like added, please contact James Reecy at
jreecy@iastate.eduus.
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The new pig oligo arrays are here and can be ordered. New swine oligo arrays
can now be ordered (http://www.pigoligoarray.org/ ). Validation of arrays is
taking place. A validation experiment, funded in part by the participants and
the USDA Pig Genome Coordinator, will take place over the next few months.
The plan is to report the information to the community at the earliest
possible date.
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Upcoming meetings (see:
http://www.animalgenome.org/pigs/community/meetings.html)
International Symposium on Animal Genomics for Animal Health, October 23-25,
2007, OIE Headquarters, World Organization for Animal Health, Paris, France.
For information contact Cyril Gay (cyril.gay@ars.usda.gov), or Marie-Héne
Pinard (pinard@dga2.jouy.inra.fr).
2nd GSA Model Organisms & Human Biology Meeting, Jan. 5-9, 2008, Town &
Country Convention Center, San Diego, CA. Please see http://www.gsa-
modelorganisms.org/
Plant and Animal Genome XVI, joint with NC-1008 and NAGRP annual meetings,
Jan. 12-16, 2008, Town & Country Convention Center, San Diego, CA. See
http://www.intl-pag.org/.
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Items for Pig Genome Update 87 can be sent to me by no later than October 15
please.
Max Rothschild
U.S. Pig Genome Coordinator
2255 Kildee Hall, Department of Animal Science
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011
Phone: 515-294-6202, Fax: 515-294-2401
mfrothsc@iastate.edu
http://www.animalgenome.org/pigs/
cc: Muquarrab Qureshi, CSREES and Caird Rexroad II, ARS
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