The FAANG Bioinformatics and Data Analysis Group

FAANG is a co-ordinated, international effort to improve and annotate farm animal genomes.

The purpose of the FAANG bioinformatics and data analysis group is:

• To agree and define standard pipelines for the analysis of FAANG data, with the aim that data sets are comparable because they have been analysed using the same pipeline.
• These pipelines to include software names, versions and parameter sets and the order in which they should be applied. Software chosen should be "industry standard"
• The group should work together to investigate methods to integrate the primary analysis results to high level summaries of functional state
• To communicate with the "Metadata and Data Sharing" group to ensure samples come with all sample and experimental metadata needed to run said pipelines.
• To communicate with the "Samples, Assays and Animals group to ensure we know the number and type of samples that will arrive.
• To communicate with the "Samples, Assays and Animals" group to define metrics which we will feed back regarding the quality of the data we receive and the quality of the analysis that has been carried out.
• To define computational data standards and make recommendations to the Samples, Assays and Animals" group about minimal experimental standards in terms of depth, read length, pairedness etc
• The group will be responsible for defining standard datasets such as reference genome, gene sets, mappability sets/black lists