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Pig Genome Newsletter #079
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> *
* July 1, 2006 *
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1. Pig genome sequencing is on the move
2. Bioinformatics utility tool box/Genomic software archive
3. Animal QTLdb
4. Planning for next year's PAG is moving along well
5. New swine oligo arrays nearing reality
6. Please provide your input
7. Upcoming meetings
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Pig genome sequencing is on the move. Sequencing has already begun and
updates can be seen daily at http://www.animalgenome.org/pigs/genomesequence/
These updates are provided as part of the Bioinformatic Coordinator's team
effort. Other information about the sequencing can be seen at that page and
web pages at the Sanger Institute and the University of Illinois.
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Bioinformatics utility tool box/Genomic software archive. A bioinformatics
utility tool box is set up at the NAGRP Bioinformatics site. Currently there
are 6 utility tools in the "tool box"
http://www.animalgenome.org/bioinfo/resources/util/ In addition, publicly
available genomics software can be obtained from
http://db.genome.iastate.edu/ftp/share/. Furthermore the livestock blast
server can be accessed at http://www.animalgenome.org/blast/.
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Animal QTLdb. The NAGRP Bioinformatics group has been actively working on
upgrading the QTL database (formerly known as PigQTLdb) to include more QTL
data from multiple species, in part, to build a basis for cross-species
comparative QTL studies. The upgrading includes both data updates and
software improvements. While the existing curator tool functions are
improved, we are adding an internal data viewer and a data review tool for
the editors to examine the data after initial curation by curators. The
internal data viewer will allow new data to be viewed and/or compared to
other published data in a private environment before it may be released to
public, and the data owner will have the option to decide on his/her data
release to public. We anticipate the release of the set of new tools to
public in the coming months. http://www.animalgenome.org/QTLdb/faq.html
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Planning for next year's PAG is moving along well with a number of exciting
speakers already lined up. Anyone with suggestions about PAG-XV speakers or
other aspects of PAG should contact PAG animal reps, including Hans Cheng,
Max Rothschild, Claire Gill, Mary Delany, Michel Georges and Jim Reecy.
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New swine oligo arrays nearing reality. Work continues to get the production
of the array materials ready and despite some setbacks they are nearing
reality. These should be available this summer and details for obtaining them
will be made available in the September 1 newsletter.
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Please provide your input. The Swine genome Coordinator is always glad to hear
from NRSP-8 members and other readers about ways that the coordination effort
can be improved or provide resources that are needed and with which the
coordinator can be of help. Also, let him know if you have items of general
interest to the swine genetics community that we can include in this
Newsletter.
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Upcoming meetings (see:
http://www.animalgenome.org/pigs/community/meetings.html)
The 8th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock ProductionBelo
Horizonte, MG, Brazil, August 13- 18, 2006. For information please contact
Fernando E. Madalena at iprociencia@terra.com.br
ISAG 2006, 30th International Conference on Animal Genetics, August 20-25,
2006, Porto Seguro - Brazil. See http://www.cbra.org.br/eventos/XXXisag.do
24th Stadler Genetics Symposium, "Genomics of Disease." October 2-4, 2006.
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO. Please see
http://muconf.missouri.edu/stadler/
Plant and Animal Genome XV, joint with NC-1008 and NAGRP annual meetings,
Jan. 13-17, 2007, Town & Country Convention Center, San Diego, CA. See
www.intl-pag.org/.
Chicken Development and Genomics, April 12-15, 2007, Barcelona, Spain. See
www.lists.bbsrc.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/chicken-genome
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Items for Pig Genome Update 80 can be sent to me by no later than August 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
cc: Muquarrab Qureshi, CSREES and Caird Rexroad II, ARS
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