Coordinated international action to accelerate genome-to-phenome with FAANG, the Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes project

Authors: Leif Andersson, Alan Archibald, C. D. K. Bottema, Rüdiger Bräuning, Shane C. Burgess, Dave W Burt, Eduardo Casas, Hans H. Cheng, Laura Clarke, Christine Couldrey, Brian P. Dalrymple, Christine G. Elsik, Sylvain Foissac, Elisabetta Giuffra, Martien A. M. Groenen, Ben J. Hayes, LuSheng S Huang, Hassan Khatib, James Kijas, Heebal Kim, Joan K. Lunney, Fiona McCarthy, John C. McEwan, S. S. Moore, Bindu Nanduri, Cédric Notredame, Yniv Palti, Graham Plastow, James M. Reecy, G. A. Rohrer, Elena Sarropoulou, Carl J. Schmidt, Jeffrey T. Silverstein, Ross L. Tellam, Michèle Tixier-Boichard, Gwenola Tosser‐Klopp, Christopher K. Tuggle, Johanna Vilkki, Stephen N. White, Shuhong Zhao, Huaijun Zhou - Genome Biology 2015 cited by 402

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.