Roslin Institute / University of Edinburgh
Department of Genomics and Genetics |
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The Roslin Institute (part of the University of Edinburgh) is the UK centre for farm animal biotechnology, with expertise in genomics, numerical genomics and quantitative genetics, physiology, immunology, gene expression and genetic manipulation. The Roslin Institute is also the host institution for the UK centre for farm animal genomics (www.ark-genomics.org) which has the largest public collection of chicken cDNA/EST resources (~500,000 clones) in the world. The institute has extensive computing facilities and strong statistical and mathematical support.
Five recent relevant publications:
- Hillier LW, et al; International Chicken Genome Sequencing Consortium. (2004). Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution. Nature 432, 695-716.
- Burnside J, Neiman P, Tang J, Bascom R, Aronszajn M, Talbot R, Burt DW, Delro J. (2005). Development of a cDNA array for chicken gene expression analysis. BMC Genomics 6,13.
- Degen WGJ, Smith J, Glass EJ, Burt DW, Schijns VEJC. (2006). Molecular immunophenotyping of lungs and spleens in naive and immune chickens early after pulmonary avian influenza A (H9N2) virus infection. Vaccine (submitted).
- Smith J, Speed D, Hocking PM, Talbot RT, Degen WGJ, Schijns VEJC, Glass EJ, Burt DW. (2006). Development of a Chicken 5K Immune Microarray. BMC Genomics (in press).
- Burt DW. (2005). Chicken Genome: current status and future opportunities. Genome Res. 15, 1692-1698
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