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Data and Breeding Systems

The programme curates and uses data and bioresources to maximise the impact of new and existing knowledge on tropical livestock genetics and health.

Featured projects

A global shared data and biological sample resource

Supporting productivity improvement in tropical livestock

  • Linked data portal and biorepository to support tropical livestock genomics research
  • Compute infrastructure for data analysis

Building better reference genomes and datasets

Making data and informatics resources available to the wider community

  • A reference genome for the N’Dama cattle breed and African Buffalo
  • African porcine reference genomes
  • Genomic analysis of the Indian Water Buffalo, African goats and sheep

Programme Leads

Jennifer Volk

CTLGH

jvolk@ed.ac.uk

Mazdak Salavati

SRUC

Mazdak.Salavati@sruc.ac.uk