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Online Mendelian Inheritance In Animals (OMIA): Enhancement and Curation By and For The Equine Genomics Community
Time: 8:05 AM
In recent years, much attention has been focussed on keeping OMIA up to date with molecular characterisations of single-locus disorders/traits across the entire animal kingdom, excluding only mice and rats. Currently, OMIA provides details of 40 single-locus equine traits/disorders, of which 29 have known causal mutations. With the genomics revolution giving rise to an explosion of knowledge in this area, a single freely-available resource recording all such discoveries in a comparative-genomics context becomes increasingly valuable to the genomics community.
A major aim of this paper is to identify people who have the time and inclination to share the curation duties with FN, in the expectation of gradually taking increasing responsibility, and doing a better job at keeping the entries up to date. Another aim is to raise other possibilities, e.g. OMIA being used as a training resource for postgraduate students, who could be given charge of specific entries during their candidatures. Yet another aim is to examine the feasibility of the resources for enhancement of OMIA being shared across various national and international species groups.
In summary, the overall aim of this paper is to begin to position OMIA as a key resource for the equine genomics community; a resource to be enhanced and curated by and for equine-genomics researchers and for end-users of the ever-increasing range of practical results emanating from genomics research.