[farmanimals] proposal

[Carl Schmidt]

A group of us (Carl Schmidt, Gallus Gbrowse; Vijay Shankar, text
processing; Keith Decker, grid based computer systems; Fiona  
McCarthy, GO
annotation; Parker Antin, Geisha; and Peter D’Eustachio, Reactome) are
preparing a proposal to the USDA seeking funding to develop  
bioinformatic
and functional genomics resources for chicken. The bioinformatic systems
we develop will be extendable for all agricultural species.

We will provide (1) text mining capabilities to support GO and  
pathway annotation, (2) a pathways database
based on experimental evidence (see
http://128.175.126.139/gallusWiki/index.php/Reactome) and (3) ability  
for
researchers to query different databases from the same web interface.

We expect that providing these integrated tools and resources will be of
enormous benefit for chicken researchers who routinely have to use data
from several different sources, those who want to do biological modeling
of their functional genomics datasets and researchers doing comparative
biology studies. Moreover, the systems we develop can serve as a  
prototype
for other agriculturally important species.

If you feel these resources would be valuable for your research, we  
would
appreciate it if you can reply with a short email indicating your  
support.
  In addition, we welcome any comments or ideas you have regarding the
development of these resources and expected usage.

To avoid cluttering this list, please send any responses to

schmidtc at udel.edu

Carl J. Schmidt
Department of Animal and Food Sciences
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware  19716
USA
schmidtc at udel.edu