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The International Sheep Genomics Consortium 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, and was built on an existing collaboration for the International Mapping Flock that was created nearly a decade earlier. |
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The goals of the project are: | ||
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high quality BAC library |
(completed) | |
| BAC library end sequenced | (completed) | |
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Virtual sheep
genome created, click here for Genome Biology manuscript |
(version 1.2 released November 2006) | |
| RH panel | (completed) | |
| Public
EST resource |
(Ovita sequences released to public September 2006) | |
| Expression array | (coming soon) | |
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Resequencing 3,000
targets for SNPs, and pilot 1.5k Illumina sheep SNP array |
(resequencing completed January 2007, genotyping completed November 2007, data still being analysed) | |
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3x Ovine Genome sequence
(454 FLX) |
(underway, started August 2007) | |
| 3k linkage and RH maps | (underway, started November 2007) | |
| Updated 11/7/08 |
Ovine HapMap
based on 60K SNP array |
(animal DNA collection commenced, 2008) |
| 60k
linkage and RH maps |
(commence August 2008) | |