Coordinated international action to accelerate genome-to-phenome with FAANG, the Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes project

The FAANG Consortium; Andersson, Leif; Cedric, Notredame; Zhou, Huaijun

doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-015-0622-4

Coordinated international action to accelerate genome-to-phenome with FAANG, the Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes project

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Andersson L, Archibald AL, Bottema CD, Brauning R, Burgess SC, Burt DW et al. Coordinated international action to accelerate genome-to-phenome with FAANG, the Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes project. Genome biology. 2015; 16: 57. DOI 10.1186/s13059-015-0622-4

Abstract

We describe the organization of a nascent international effort, the Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes (FAANG) project, whose aim is to produce comprehensive maps of functional elements in the genomes of domesticated animal species