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Pig Genome Newsletter #068
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@db.genome.iastate.edu> *
* September 1, 2004 *
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1. Pig genetics and genomics were prominent at the National FASS meetings
2. Need array materials?? We still have additional materials for ordering
3. The 3rd International Symposium on Genetics of Animal Health
4. USDA planning workshop on Genomics Needs for the Next 25 Years
5. The new CSREES web site is up and running
6. Swine Genome Sequencing Consortium continues trying to reach its goal
7. Upcoming meetings (9 items)
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Pig genetics and genomics were prominent at the 2004 National FASS
meetings in St Louis this July 25-29. A diverse group of participants
stayed until the last session of this year's National Federation of Animal
Science Societies meetings to discuss swine genetics and genomics. Nearly
half of the presentations described the identification of new quantitative
trait loci (QTL) or the validation of existing QTL for reproduction,
growth and meat quality traits, as well as scrotal hernia. Growth and
carcass composition traits in pig lines divergently selected for
testosterone production were described, while two presentations described
a comprehensive evaluation of growth, carcass and eating quality traits
of pigs sired by boars from two different time periods. Two new database
resources were also presented. One, PACE, has been designed for the
storage and combination of several types of map data, to align physical
and genetic maps and to provide links to related database resources. It
is available at https://acedb.asg.wur.nl/, however functionality will be
limited until more data have been submitted. The second database,
openSputnik swine, contains clustered pig EST sequences and their
annotation, as well as results from a large-scale in silico SNP study.
The database is freely available at
http://sputnik.btk.fi/project?name=swine (kindly provided by Laura Grapes).
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Need array materials?? We still have additional materials left to obtain
printed pig oligo arrays. Despite a number of requests some materials
still exist to print additional arrays. Previous individuals who have
ordered arrays can again order up to 30 arrays and new orders from non-
NRSP8 labs and foreign labs will now be accepted until the materials run
out. Cost is $20/slide. Slide orders would be on a first come first
serve basis. If you are interested please immediately contact Max
Rothschild at mfrothsc@iastate.edu.
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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. Support for the meeting will be provided
by a number of industry groups and the USDA-CSREES genome coordinators.
Please note the dates on your calendar, and bookmark the GAH2005 web home
page: http://www.ans.iastate.edu/GAH2005.html. More information will be
available at this site soon!
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Genomics Needs for the Next 25 Years. An extremely important strategic
planning workshop for agricultural animal genomics will be conducted by
USDA on September 22-23rd in Washington, DC. Late last year, the
Interagency Working Group on Domestic Animal Genomics asked that USDA
provide a more detailed long-term vision of publicly-funded agricultural
animal genomics programs. As a result, 35 leading ARS and CSREES
researchers working in all of the major species will be participating in
an invited workshop with USDA administrators to assist in formulating this
vision. The two-day event will focus on bioinformatics and functional
genomics needs for the future and will help to identify priority areas
that USDA should lead. The anticipated result of the workshop will be a
white paper document that will lay out this vision for use in strategic
planning by ARS and CSREES. For information please contact: Ronnie
Green, USDA/ARS (rdg@ars.usda.gov).
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The new CSREES web site is up and running. Please send any events or topic
information to Dr. Muquarrab Qureshi USDA-CSREES MQureshi@CSREES.USDA.GOV.
You may want to post notices such as meetings or conferences, as long as
they are related to this web page. You can access the web site following
this URL: www.csrees.usda.gov and then going to the section on Animals
and Animal Products, then look for the programs on Animal Breeding and
Genetics and Genomics.
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Swine Genome Sequencing Consortium continues to try to reach its goal.
Efforts are progressing to advance the sequencing of the pig genome. The
next meeting will be held during ISAG meeting in Tokyo, Japan in September.
Interested parties are encouraged to participate in the future. If you
can help in raising these funds please contact Larry Schook at UIUC or
Max Rothschild, at ISU.
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Upcoming meetings (see:
http://www.genome.iastate.edu/community/meetings.html)
ISAG 2004, 29th International Conference on Animal Genetics, Sept. 11-16,
2004, Surugadai Campus, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan. For more
information see http://www2.kobe-u.ac.jp/~isag2004/.
Genome Informatics, sponsored by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the
Wellcome Trust, September 22-26 in Hinxton Hall, Hinxton, UK. For
information please contact meetings@cshl.edu.
GSAC XVI, sponsored by The Institute for Genome Research, Sept. 27-30,
2004, Washington, DC. See www.tigr.org/conf/gsac for more information.
GO Users Meeting will be held at Northwestern University, Chicago, October
14, 2004. For more details contact r-chisholm@northwestern.edu.
Computational Genomics sponsored by TIGR will be in Reston, VA, October
21-24. For details contact registration@tigr.org.
Ninth DISCOVER Conference on Food Animal Agriculture. "Protecting and
Managing Animal Genetic Resources for Future Generations: The Next Steps",
Nov. 2-5, 2004, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Please see www.adsa.org/discover/ for
further information.
Bioinformatics and its Applications in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on
December 16-19, 2004. For details please contact hem@nsu.nova.edu
Plant, Animal and Microbial Genome XIII, joint with the NAGRP annual
meetings, Jan. 15-19, 2005, Town & Country Convention Center, San Diego,
CA. Please see www.intl-pag.org/ for information.
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
Additional items can be found at:
http://www.agbiotechnet.com/calendar/index.asp.
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Items for Pig Genome Update 69 can be sent to me by no later than
October15 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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