title: AnimalQTLdb: a livestock QTL database tool set for positional QTL information mining and beyond.
abstract: The Animal Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) database (AnimalQTLdb) is designed to house all publicly available QTL data on livestock animal species from which researchers can easily locate and compare QTL within species. The database tools are also added to link the QTL data to other types of genomic information, such as radiation hybrid (RH) maps, finger printed contig (FPC) physical maps, linkage maps and comparative maps to the human genome, etc. Currently, this database contains data on 1287 pig, 630 cattle and 657 chicken QTL, which are dynamically linked to respective RH, FPC and human comparative maps. We plan to apply the tool to other animal species, and add more structural genome information for alignment, in an attempt to aid comparative structural genome studies (http://www.animalgenome.org/QTLdb/).
authors.affiliation: Department of Animal Science, Center for Integrated Animal Genomics Iowa State University, 2255 Kildee Hall, Ames, IA 50011-3150, USA. zhu@iastate.edu
authors.forename: Zhi-Liang
authors.initials: ZL
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Eric Ryan
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Fritz
authors.forename: James M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Reecy
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic / Q000235:genetics*; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D040641:Quantitative Trait Loci; D018511:Systems Integration; D014584:User-Computer Interface