The FAANG ConsortiumAndersson, LeifCedric, NotredameZhou, Huaijun2015-11-102015-11-102015Andersson 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/s13059-015-0622-41474-7596http://hdl.handle.net/10230/25042We 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 speciesapplication/pdfeng© 2015 Andersson et al.; licensee BioMed Central. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.Genètica animalEvolució (Biologia)info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-015-0622-4info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess