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A European infrastructure for farmed animal genotype to phenotype research

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Advancing farmed animal science and genotype-to-phenotype research in Europe

Animal science aims to improve the health, welfare and productivity of animals while ensuring sustainability for animal products. In this context, the EU-funded EuroFAANG project will develop a concept for a sustainable pan-European infrastructure for genotype-to-phenotype (G2P) research across farmed animal species. The infrastructure intends to refine and characterise complex traits as sets of informative phenotypes driven by functional genome elements, enabling accurate G2P predictions. The project will bring together interdisciplinary capabilities for G2P research in terrestrial and aquatic farmed animals, and establish concepts for transnational access to facilities and knowledge in the areas of genomics, breeding, phenotyping and animal health. EuroFAANG builds on six current H2020 projects and connects with existing infrastructures for data management and agriculture in Europe.

Objective

This proposal describes concept development and conceptualisation of a EuroFAANG (European Functional Annotation of ANimal Genomes) infrastructure to realise the full potential of genotype to phenotype (G2P) research across species, breeds and populations of farmed animal species in Europe. To achieve accurate G2P predictions, it is necessary to be able to refine and characterise highly complex traits as sets of intermediate informative phenotypes along the entire cascade from genome to cell, organism, environment, population and across different environments. The goal of the EuroFAANG infrastructure is to streamline use of interdisciplinary capabilities for G2P research in terrestrial and aquatic farmed animals and provide transnational access to all of the relevant facilities, expertise and knowledge to European stakeholders. This will address the need to bring together national facilities at the pan-European level in the field of animal genetic resources, phenotyping and breeding, and animal health, which was identified as a gap in the infrastructure landscape by the 2021 ESFRI Roadmap. The proposal builds on the foundation provided by the five current H2020 EuroFAANG projects, AQUA-FAANG, BovReg, GENE-SWitCH, GEroIMO and RUMIGEN and connects with existing infrastructures for data management and animal agriculture in the European research infrastructure landscape. The institutions and organisations involved have world-leading expertise in fundamental and applied farmed animal science and consolidated established connections to European stakeholders in farmed animal science. The outcomes of this proposal will lead to better alignment of the development of the research infrastructures landscape for the advancement of excellent farmed animal science and frontier G2P research in Europe and globally.

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Call for proposal

HORIZON-INFRA-2022-DEV-01

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions

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FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUR NUTZTIERBIOLOGIE
Net EU contribution
€ 521 875,00
Address
WILHELM-STAHL-ALLEE 2
18196 Dummerstorf
Germany

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Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Landkreis Rostock
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€ 521 875,00

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