Establishing the ELIXIR Domestic Animals Genome and Phenome Community

<ns7:p>The well-being of farmed and companion animals is increasingly recognised as integral to sustainable agroecosystems, companionship, and the One Health approach, which emphasises the interconnected health of people, animals, and the environment. The ELIXIR Domestic Animals Genome and Phenome (DAGP) Community supports genome-to-phenome analyses for farmed and companion animal species. Its aim is to coordinate, discuss, and explore the potential of data technology solutions to address key issues in animal welfare, behaviour, health, infectious diseases, metabolism, nutritional efficiency, and the preservation of genetic diversity and the environment. Through consolidating efforts to develop data standards, coordination, workflows, and visualisation, it will enhance the science underpinning rapidly growing fields in domestic animal genomics, including genome-enabled breeding, population genomics, pangenome analysis, functional genomics, genome editing, paleogenomics, phenotyping, and bio-banking. These standards will adhere to the FAIR data principles and leverage established ontologies to promote best practices in data coordination and archiving. This white paper, prepared by the ELIXIR DAGP Focus Group, summarises the current data infrastructure, resources, and tools available for domestic animal genomics and phenomics, and presents community-led plans and priorities to be implemented to meet the requirements of ELIXIR services and the animal science community. We describe how ELIXIR services can be applied in the domestic animal genomics and phenomics fields, and how we can connect projects and infrastructures that are active in the animal sciences domain. We also discuss three key priority areas: i) expanding the FAANG Data Portal for phenotype data with ELIXIR Data Platforms; ii) supporting submissions of new data types across ELIXIR Core Data Resources , including proprietary data from industry partners; and iii) strengthening connections to existing ELIXIR Communities and international consortia. This article provides a set of priorities for a Domestic Animals Genome and Phenome Community in ELIXIR and outlines the next steps to engage across stakeholders and to consolidate data for domestic animal science in Europe.</ns7:p>

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2026-03-02
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Establishing the ELIXIR Domestic Animals Genome and Phenome Community

Emily L. Clark, Haja N. Kadarmideen, Murdoch Brenda, Tina Hartwig et al.
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Research Data Management Practices
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Establishing the ELIXIR Domestic Animals Genome and Phenome Community

Emily L. Clark, Haja N. Kadarmideen, Murdoch Brenda, Tina Hartwig, Christiaan V. Henkel, Daniel Fischer, Katharina F. Heil, Endre Barta, David E. MacHugh, Tomas Klingström, Jose Espinosa‐Carrasco, Sylvain Foissac, Patrick Ruch, Physilia Chua, Ilma Tapio, Ole Madsen, Sarah O Fischer, Joseph Robertson, Elisabetta Giuffra, Damir Baranasic, Catherine Larzul, John O-Grady, Cedric Notredame, Robert M Waterhouse, Michèle Tixier-Boichard, Geena Cartick, Andreia Amaral, Klaus Wimmers, Lingzhao Fang
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<ns7:p>The well-being of farmed and companion animals is increasingly recognised as integral to sustainable agroecosystems, companionship, and the One Health approach, which emphasises the interconnected health of people, animals, and the environment. The ELIXIR Domestic Animals Genome and Phenome (DAGP) Community supports genome-to-phenome analyses for farmed and companion animal species. Its aim is to coordinate, discuss, and explore the potential of data technology solutions to address key issues in animal welfare, behaviour, health, infectious diseases, metabolism, nutritional efficiency, and the preservation of genetic diversity and the environment. Through consolidating efforts to develop data standards, coordination, workflows, and visualisation, it will enhance the science underpinning rapidly growing fields in domestic animal genomics, including genome-enabled breeding, population genomics, pangenome analysis, functional genomics, genome editing, paleogenomics, phenotyping, and bio-banking. These standards will adhere to the FAIR data principles and leverage established ontologies to promote best practices in data coordination and archiving. This white paper, prepared by the ELIXIR DAGP Focus Group, summarises the current data infrastructure, resources, and tools available for domestic animal genomics and phenomics, and presents community-led plans and priorities to be implemented to meet the requirements of ELIXIR services and the animal science community. We describe how ELIXIR services can be applied in the domestic animal genomics and phenomics fields, and how we can connect projects and infrastructures that are active in the animal sciences domain. We also discuss three key priority areas: i) expanding the FAANG Data Portal for phenotype data with ELIXIR Data Platforms; ii) supporting submissions of new data types across ELIXIR Core Data Resources , including proprietary data from industry partners; and iii) strengthening connections to existing ELIXIR Communities and international consortia. This article provides a set of priorities for a Domestic Animals Genome and Phenome Community in ELIXIR and outlines the next steps to engage across stakeholders and to consolidate data for domestic animal science in Europe.</ns7:p>

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University College Dublin (IE), SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (CH), Magyar Agrár- és Élettudományi Egyetem (HU), European Bioinformatics Institute (GB), Roslin Institute (GB), University of Idaho (US), École Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse (FR), Aarhus University (DK), University of Évora (PT), AgroParisTech (FR), Université Paris-Saclay (FR), Aarhus University Hospital (DK), Wellcome Sanger Institute (GB), Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories (BE), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SE), Natural Resources Institute Finland (FI), Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (FR), Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN) (DE), Ruđer Bošković Institute (HR), Centre for Genomic Regulation (ES), Génétique Physiologie et Systèmes d'Elevage (FR), Imperial College London (GB), Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NO), Wageningen University & Research (NL)
U.S. Department of Agriculture, UK Research and Innovation, Australian Government, European Commission, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Ireland, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Svenska Forskningsrådet Formas, Vetenskapsrådet, Directorate for Biological Sciences, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme, Research Executive Agency, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Agencia Estatal de Investigación
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