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Pig Genome Newsletter #106
From: "Rothschild, Max F [AN S]" <mfrothsc@iastate.edu>
To: angenmap@animalgenome.org
Subject: US Pig Genome Newsletter #106
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:21:24 -0600
Pig Genome Update # 106:
- PDF version is available at
http://www.animalgenome.org/pigs/newsletter/pdf/No.106.pdf
- Web version is available at
http://www.animalgenome.org/pigs/newsletter/No.106.html
- Plain text version is appended below:
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
************** No. 106 **************
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* <angenmap@animalgenome.org> *
* January 1, 2011 *
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1. PAG 2011 Swine Workshop and other PAG happenings
2. PAG 2011 - Swine Sequencing/Publication meeting will be at breakfast
3. New White Paper on swine genome progress and future directions
4. The NRSP-8 Bioinformatics Team is keeping the pig genome sequencing
activities updated
5. A data repository was set up by the NRSP-8 Bioinformatics Team
6. New publishing format for Pig Genome Update coming soon
7. National Swine Improvement Federation (NSIF) meeting was recently held
8. On Sunday at the PAG the NRSP8 workshop will feature Professor Morris
Soller giving the NRSP8 Distinguished Lecture
9. Upcoming meetings ( 3 items )
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** Happy Holidays and New Year to you, your families and colleagues!! **
PAG 2011 Swine Workshop and other PAG happenings. This year at the NRSP-8
Swine Sub-Committee Workshop on January 15, 2011, we will celebrate the
"end of the beginning"- the completion of the draft pig genome sequence.
We have a great joint session planned with the Cattle/Sheep group in the
morning, as this was very successful last year. At this joint session, we
will hear from both academia and the industry regarding the nature of the
genome (A. Archibald) and the use of it to understand traits of interest
(B. Harzilius). In the afternoon, we will have several talks on
annotating (J. Loveland) and analyzing the genome (M. Groenen, H.-J.
Megens, O. Madsen). We will finish with a talk on GWAS in reproduction
and disease (D. Ciobanu). Hope to see you all there! (kindly submitted by
Chris Tuggle).
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PAG 2011 - Swine Sequencing/Publication meeting will be a breakfast
meeting at 7-8am in Pacific Salon 1 on Monday January 17. Please pick up
your breakfast and come to the meeting. The agenda will be 1.
Introductions; 2. Review process in developing and defining themes for the
sequence paper; 3. Review timetable for completion of data analysis,
manuscript preparation and submission; 4. Ranking of target journals for
the main paper; 5. Review the proposed companion papers and target
journals; 6. Discuss integration of data, e.g. into the Ensembl database
to enable data analysis; and 7. Assignments. Plan to join us if you are
working on these publications (kindly submitted by Larry Schook).
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New White Paper on swine genome progress and future directions was
recently prepared in response to a request by the USDA and other agencies
to benchmark progress in livestock genomes. The white paper received
inputs from swine genome researchers around the globe including
researchers from the International Swine Genome Sequencing Consortium
(SGSC). The white paper can be seen at
http://www.animalgenome.org/pigs/community/WhitePaper/. Your thoughts are
appreciated.
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The NRSP-8 Bioinformatics Team is keeping the pig genome sequencing
activities updated. The most recent updates are new links to the NCBI
annotation of pig genome version 9.2 and NAGRP blast site for the internal
released assembly version 10, among others. Click "Swine Genome
Sequencing: News & Updates" at the pig genome web site
(http://www.animalgenome.org/pigs/) for more details.
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A data repository was set up by the NRSP-8 Bioinformatics Team for the pig
genome research community to share data. It can be seen at
(http://www.animalgenome.org/repository/pig/).
Currently available data sets are the Illumina 60K SNP locations for build
10 contributed by Martien Groenen. Those who wish to share data, please
contact the Swine Genome Coordinator Max Rothschild
(mfrothsc@iastate.edu), or Bioinformatics Coordinator Jim Reecy
(jreecy@iastate.edu), or send an email directly to the NAGRP
Bioinformatics Team (bioinfo-team@animalgenome.org).
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New publishing format for Pig Genome Update coming soon. Starting January
1, 2011 the Pig Genome Update will be published 4 times a year instead of
6. Your input and ideas are always welcome. Please contribute.
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National Swine Improvement Federation (NSIF) meeting was recently held in
Kansas City. Attended by nearly 75 people, the meeting included talks
devoted to genomic selection, use of markers for meat quality and feed
efficiency and talks devoted to predicting the future use of genetic
markers. The proceedings should be available in the near future.
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On Sunday at the PAG the NRSP8 workshop will feature Professor Morris
Soller giving the NRSP8 Distinguished Lecture. The PAG plenary talks and
other activities at PAG XIX promise to deliver a quality meeting. Now is
the time to register. Please note: NRSP-8 coordination funding will be
available to partially support travel or registration for committee
members or members of their labs. If interested, please contact
memfrothsc@iastate.edu prior to December 1.
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Upcoming meetings (see:
http://www.animalgenome.org/pigs/community/meetings.html)
Plant and Animal Genome XIX Conference, January 15-19, 2011, San Diego CA.
For details see http://www.intl-pag.org/
Gordon Research Conference in Quantitative Genetics & Genomics, Feb.
20-25, 2011, Hotel Galvez, Galveston, TX. See
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2011&program=quantgen
Swine in Biomedical Research, July 17-19, 2011, Chicago IL, for details
contact Larry Schook at schook@uiuc.edu
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A special thanks to friends and colleagues for your help and support.
Please take some time off to enjoy the holidays!!
Items for Pig Genome Update 107 can be sent to me by no later than March 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, NAGRP Director, National Animal Genome Research Program, NIFA
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