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TAMU Bovine QTL db and viewer. Dave Adelson Texas A&M University. Bovineqtl.tamu.edu. Provide a database of publicly available QTL in cattle. Front end for the database is a viewer that displays genomic context. Link to genome sequence and annotation. Bovine QTL viewer. QTL database.
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TAMU Bovine QTL db and viewer Dave Adelson Texas A&M University
Bovineqtl.tamu.edu • Provide a database of publicly available QTL in cattle. • Front end for the database is a viewer that displays genomic context. • Link to genome sequence and annotation.
Current limitations • Assembly quality is the biggest problem. • About 40% of STS defining QTL cannot be positioned on chromosomes. • Total number of QTL in the bovine QTL viewer: 843 • Number of qtl anchored on BGA v2 (gbrowse) 487 • Number of qtl anchored on BGA v3 (gbrowse) 457 • Number of SNPs within calculated qtl on BGA v3(gbrowse) : 575
Beta testing • Search tool to find genes from QTL viewer using smart string/text matches. • Automated literature search tool and interface for curation.
Bovinegenome.org • Founding PIs: Christine Elsik, David Adelson and Mark Fahrenkrug. • Model organism database for cattle. • Will provide a one stop shop for cattle researchers. • Will integrate data to provide features not available at NCBI, UCSC or Ensembl.
Bovinegenome.org • Integration of QTL viewer with bovine EST resources and protein families. • Addition of SNP/haplotype database and integration with genome browser and QTL viewer. • Waiting for the SNP coordinates on assembly v3 at present. Only ~1500 available at present.
Thoughts for data formats and interoperability. • Require authors to provide QTL data to a database upon acceptance by a journal. • Details of significance of association for each marker tested should be required. • Most data will now be SNP based rather than microsat based. • Since each db will be curated differently, they should be interoperable via web services rather than mirrored.