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From hu@animalgenome.org  Tue Jul 21 10:45:44 2020
From: "Cheng, Hans" <hcheng@msu.edu> 
Subject: faang 
Date: Jul 21, 2020 at 06:37:21 AM CDT 
To: Members of <faang@animalgenome.org>

Due to the restrictions placed by the pandemic, the submission deadline for
the FAANG Research Topic has been pushed back to Jan. 8. However, we still
encourage all submitters to not delay in their submission, which will help
in a timely processing of all the submitted papers; 32 confirmed as of
today.

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To Whom It May Concern:

I am pleased to announce a call for Original Research papers and
Commentaries for a Frontiers Research Topic on the Functional Annotation of
Farm Animals (see below for the overview). Submissions will be reviewed by
a team that includes Amanda Chamberlain (Agriculture Victoria, Australia),
Elisabetta Giuffra (INRA, France), Christa Kuehn (Leibniz Institute for
Farm Animal Biology, Germany), Chris Tuggle (Iowa State U., USA), and
Huaijun Zhou (University of California at Davis, USA) as associate editors.
As of today, there are already 15 submissions to this Research Topic, which
assures that we will have critical mass and an eBook.

The deadline for submission is September 25, 2020; the website also has an
abstract deadline of May 29 but this is optional, however, it would help to
know if you have interest.

For more information, please see
https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/13606/functional-annotation-of-farm-animal-genomes

Sincerely,

Hans Cheng


Functional Annotation of Farm Animal Genomes Research Topic Overview

All fields of biology have been greatly influenced by the generation of
complete and well-annotated genome assemblies. This impact is most apparent
with the findings and resulting applications from the Human Genome Project
(HGP), which has transformed biomedical science. The original justification
for having a genome assembly was to get a complete “parts list” with
the primary goal being the identification and location of all genes.
However, it soon became readily apparent that genomes were much more than
just sequences that code for proteins; protein-coding regions account for
~1.5% of the human genome. Thus, current efforts have been focused on
finding relevant functional elements, such as non-coding elements that
regulate when, where, and how much specific genes and/or particular
isoforms are expressed.

To address the need for annotation of farm animal genomes, the Functional
Annotation of Animal Genomes (FAANG) Consortium was launched in 2015. Like
other research consortia, FAANG is committed to sharing data rapidly and
before publication for the benefit of the whole community
(http://www.faang.org/data-share-principle), with data and metadata
(standardizeddetails on samples, laboratory and bioinformatic protocols applied)
being
collected in the FAANG Data Portal (data.faang.org).

The goal of this Research Topic is to add value to the FAANG community
across different farm animal species and topics. We wish to solicit
Original Research articles and Commentaries that address efforts to
annotate farm animal genomes and inform genomic biology. This includes but
is not limited to protocols, results, databases, computational tools, or
standards to identify functional elements in both coding and non-coding
regions of the genome.

In addition, submissions must be compliant with Frontiers data policy which
can be viewed here:
https://www.frontiersin.org/about/policies-and-publication-ethics#MandatoryDataRecommendedRepositories.

Keywords: genome annotation, regulatory elements, epigenetics, farm animals

Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the
scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in
their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-
scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer
review.

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Hans H. Cheng
Research Geneticist
USDA-ARS
Avian Disease and Oncology Laboratory
4279 E. Mount Hope Rd.
East Lansing, MI  48823
Tel: (517) 337-6758
FAX: (517) 337-6829
E-mail: hchengmsu.eduor
Hans.Chengusda.gov========================================