[farmanimals] proposal

[dave burt (RI)]

Dear Carl and Colleagues,

I fully support your proposal to seek USDA funds to develop
bioinformatic and functional genomics resources for the chicken. This
initiative will complement and support our work on the annotation and
use of the chicken genome in medical, agricultural and biological
research.

I wish you every success, Dave 


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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-farmanimals at genome.stanford.edu
[mailto:owner-farmanimals at genome.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Carl Schmidt
Sent: 25 May 2007 17:18
To: farmanimals at genome.stanford.edu
Cc: Carl Schmidt
Subject: [farmanimals] proposal

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