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Pig Genome Newsletter #073
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, 2005 *
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1. Enjoy summer, support the industry and barbecue pork
2. Pig genome sequencing grant deadline is coming
3. Swine Oligo Array Committee makes progress
4. Have you tried the pig quantitative trait loci (QTL) database
5. The 3rd International Symposium on Genetics of Animal Health
will convene on July 13-15, 2005 in Ames, Iowa, USA
6. Upcoming meetings (6 items)
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Enjoy summer, support the industry and barbecue pork. Go out and
barbecue some pork for the holidays and the summer. See the recipes
provided by the NPB:
http://www.otherwhitemeat.com/aspx/recipes/Recipe_Details.aspx?rid=363&cid=12
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Pig genome sequencing grant deadline is coming. The deadline for the
USDA National Research Initiative Porcine Genome Sequencing grant program
(http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/fundview.cfm?fonum=1380) is August 18 with
letters of intent (not required due July 18). USDA department officials
have indicated that they expect a highly competitive, peer-reviewed
process. The $10 million included in the CSREES RFA is not necessarily
the bottom line of the USDA's commitment. The Agricultural Research
Service of the USDA has indicated that they would provide an additional
$1-2 million for the project. The Alliance for Animal Genome Research,
the nonprofit organization that has led the fundraising efforts, praised
USDA for outstanding leadership in getting the project underway. The
USDA announcement was made possible because of the significant research
collaborations of members of the international Swine Genome Sequencing
Consortium. Many members of the SGSC have contributed to the development
of the resources that will serve as the basis for sequencing the swine
genome. This new USDA program will not be the only source of funding for
the project. Through the SGSC, the ARS-USDA, the Institute for Pig
Genetics of the Netherlands, the INRA of France, Iowa Pork Producers
Association, Iowa State University, the National Livestock Research
Institute of Korea, the National Research Initiative (NRI) of CSREES-
USDA, the National Pork Board, North Carolina Pork Board, North Carolina
State University, the Roslin Institute, the Sino-Danish Consortium,
University of Illinois, and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have
contributed already or have pledged significant support to the swine
genome sequencing project. Information regarding the CSREES RFA can be
found http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/porcinegenomesequencingnri.html.
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Swine Oligo Array Committee makes progress. The swine NRSP8 genome
committee is continuing to plan for the next generation of swine long-
oligo arrays. The Swine Oligo Array committee includes: Scott Fahrenkrug,
UMN, Chair; Joan Lunney, USDA BARC, CoChair; Cathy Ernst, MSU; Chris
Elsik, TAMU; Jim Reecy, IA State, NRSP8 Bioinformatics Chair; Max
Rothschild, IA State, Swine Genome Coordinator, and Joe Cassady, NCSU,
Swine NRSP8 Chair. The swine group will develop the non-redundant sets of
sequences on which to base oligo design, and expects that a set of
~20,000 long oligos to be produced. To decrease costs the swine group is
coordinating efforts with members of the bovine oligo planning group. It
is expected that bids will be reviewed in July and production started in
August.
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Have you tried the pig quantitative trait loci (QTL) database (PigQTLdb)
that was created at Iowa State University. To date, 791 QTLs from 73
publications have been curated into the database at
http://www.animalgenome.org/QTLdb/ and new data are continually being
added to it. Support from NAGRP and NCBI have made this possible.
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The 3rd International Symposium on Genetics of Animal Health (formerly,
Candidate Genes for Animal Health) will convene on July 13-15, 2005, in
Ames, Iowa, USA. The meeting will feature several invited speakers,
contributed presentations and poster sessions and should be an exciting
continuation of past meetings. Please see GAH2005 web home page:
http://www.ans.iastate.edu/GAH2005.html.
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Upcoming meetings (see:
http://www.animalgenome.org/community/meetings.html)
14th Colloquium on Animal Cytogenetics and Gene Mapping, July 3-7, 2005
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. See http://www.cucba.udg.mx/14thnacacgm/
3rd International Symposium on Genetics of Animal Health, July 13-15,
2005, in Ames, Iowa, USA, Please see:
http://www.ans.iastate.edu/GAH2005.html
ASAS, ADSA, CSAS joint annual meeting, July 24-28, 2005, Cincinnati,
Ohio. See http://www.fass.org/2005/
2005 UC Davis Transgenic Animal Conference, Aug. 14-18, 2005,
Granlibakken Conference Center, Tahoe City, CA. See
http://conferences.ucdavis.edu/TGAC
Symposium on Integration of Structural and Functional Genomics (14th
Annual Growth Factor and Signal Transduction Conference), September 22-
25, 2005, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. See
http://www.bb.iastate.edu/~gfst/homepg.html
Plant and Animal Genome XIV, joint with the NAGRP annual meetings, Jan.
14-18, 2006, Town & Country Convention Center, San Diego, CA. See
www.intl-pag.org/.
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Items for Pig Genome Update 74 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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