posted on 2023-05-03, 13:02authored byLeif Andersson, Alan Archibald, Cynthia Bottema, Rudiger BrauningRudiger Brauning, Shane Burgess, Dave Burt, Eduardo Casas, Hans Cheng, Laura Clarke, Christine Couldrey, Brian Dalrymple, Christine Elsik, Sylvain Foissac, Elisabetta Giuffra, Martien A. Groenen, Ban J. Hayes, Lu Sheng Huang, Hassan Khatib, James W. Kijas, Heebal Kim, Joan K. Lunney, Fiona M. McCarthy, John McEwanJohn McEwan, Stephen Moore, Bindu Nanduri, Cedric Notredame, Yniv Palti, Graham S. Plastow, James M. Reecy, Gary A. Rohrer, Elena Sarrapoulou, Carl J. Schmidt, Jeff Silverstein, Ross L. Tellam, Michele Tixier-Boichardt, Gwenola Tosser-Klopp, Christopher K. Tuggle, Johanna Vikki, Stephen White, Shuhong Zhao, Huaijun Zhou
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.
The FAANG Consortium, Andersson, L., Archibald, A. L., Bottema, C. D., Brauning, R., Burgess, S. C., Burt. D. W., ... McEwan, J., ... Zhou, H. (2015). Coordinated international action to accelerate genome-to-phenome with FAANG, the Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes project. Genome Biology, 16, 57. DOI: 10.1186/s13059-015-0622-4