From zhu@iastate.edu Mon Apr 20 19:16:05 2009 From: Zhiliang Hu To: Multiple Recipients of Subject: What's new on NAGRP animal genome web site (#2, 2009) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:16:05 -0500 What's new on NAGRP animal genome web site (#2, 2009) o We are happy to announce Release 8 of the Animal QTLdb which includes 955 new QTL data recently being added to the database (break down by species: Pig: 569; Cattle: 252; Chiken: 134). URL: http://www.animalgenome.org/QTLdb/ Thanks to our new data curator Cari Park, who recently joined our team at the Iowa State University, for her diligent works curating the QTLdb. We are able to accelerate the pace the new data are entered. Feel free to contact us at bioinfo-team@animalgenome.org if you have new data to enter or report any bug you may have found. o Animal QTLdb data can now be downloaded in GFF format for use in external analysis such as uploading to UCSC site for genome feature alignments. Similar to the downloads in other formats, downloads of GFF file can be made for the whole genome, or for a whole chromosome, or, for a customizable scope you view at the chromosome level. URL: http://www.animalgenome.org/cgi-bin/QTLdb/SS/browse URL: http://www.animalgenome.org/cgi-bin/QTLdb/BT/browse URL: http://www.animalgenome.org/cgi-bin/QTLdb/GG/browse o Bovine 50K SNP chip elements are aligned with cattle genome with GBrowse. The alignment is in accordance with QTL information that are already aligned within GBrowse. URL: http://www.animalgenome.org/gbrowse/ o Partial pig genome data from Sanger are ported to display with the GBrowse software. Currently, GBrowse views are only available for pig chromosomes 1, 4, 5, 7, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, and X. As the pig genome sequencing is progressing, the GBrowse display of the pig QTL alignments will be updated as well. URL: http://www.animalgenome.org/gbrowse/ o Horse genome data from NCBI are now ported to display with the GBrowse software. URL: http://www.animalgenome.org/gbrowse/ o We routinely keep the site "Frequently Asked Questions"(FAQ) updated. Please refer to the URL below for the ones for the Animal QTLdb, and for the AnGenMap, respectively. URL: http://www.animalgenome.org/QTLdb/faq.html URL: http://www.animalgenome.org/community/angenmap/faq.html Check out the "what's new" page for more up-to-date information on this site: http://www.animalgenome.org/news/whatsnew.html -- NAGRP Bioinfo Team bioinfo-team@animalgenome.org