FAANG, establishing metadata standards, validation and best practices for the farmed and companion animal community.

ABSTRACT: The Functional Annotation of ANimal Genomes (FAANG) project aims, through a coordinated international effort, to provide high quality functional annotation of animal genomes with an initial focus on farmed and companion animals. A key goal of the initiative is to ensure high quality and rich supporting metadata to describe the project's animals, specimens, cell cultures and experimental assays. By defining rich sample and experimental metadata standards and promoting best practices in data descriptions, deposition and openness, FAANG champions higher quality and reusability of published datasets. FAANG has established a Data Coordination Centre, which sits at the heart of the Metadata and Data Sharing Committee. It continues to evolve the metadata standards, support submissions and, crucia

SUBMITTER: Harrison PW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6334167 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature