International Sheep

Genomics Consortium

Links

            NCBI

                        Map

                        Sequences

                        dbSNP

            CHORI

About the project

BAC end sequencing

Virtual genome

ESTs

20K SNP chip

HapMap

RH map

Genome Sequence

Long term goals

Data release policy

            Publications

            Participants

E-mail secretary

The International Sheep Genomics Consortia is a partnership of scientists and funding agencies from Australia, France, Kenya, New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States to develop public genomic resources that will help researchers find genes associated with production, quality and disease traits in sheep.

The project commenced informally in 2002 with the creation of a high quality ovine BAC library but built on an existing collaboration the International Mapping Flock created nearly a decade earlier.

The goals of the project are:

·          A high quality BAC library                   (completed)

·          BAC library end sequenced               (completed)

·          Virtual sheep genome created           (under construction Dec 2006)

·          RH panel                                               (completed)

·          Public EST resource                           (coming soon Dec 2006)

·          Expression array                                  (coming soon)

·          20K SNP chip                                      (pilot project underway Jul 2007)

·          4K linkage map                                    (planning stages Dec 2006)

·          20K RH map                                        (planning stages Dec 2007)

·          Ovine HapMap                                     (animal DNA collection commenced Dec 2007)

·          4X Ovine Genome sequence             (pilot project underway Dec 2008)