title: Introduction to the proceedings of the Avian Genomics and Gene Ontology Annotation Workshop.
abstract: The Avian Genomics Conference and Gene Ontology Annotation Workshop brought together researchers and students from around the world to present their latest research addressing the delivery of value from the billions of base-pairs of Archosaur sequence that have become available in the last few years. This editorial describes the conference itself and introduces the ten peer-reviewed manuscripts accepted for publications in the proceedings. These manuscripts address issues ranging from the poultry industry view of USDA genomics policy to the genomics of a wide variety of Archeosaur species including chicken, duck, alligator, and condors and their pathogens.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA. bridges@cse.msstate.edu
authors.forename: Susan M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Bridges
authors.forename: Shane C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Burgess
authors.forename: Fiona M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: McCarthy
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds / Q000235:genetics*; D002645:Chickens / Q000235:genetics; D019295:Computational Biology; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D023281:Genomics