• HS Rats Pilot Projects 2016

Pilot Studies in HS Outbred Rats Supporting Drug Abuse Research Center of Excellence The NIDA center for GWAS in outbred rats (P50DA037844) focuses on quantitative genetic studies of a range of psychologically complex drug abuse-related phenotypes in outbred rats. In order to broaden the impact of this center and to promote rat genetics studies we … Read more…

• GWAS can be now performed under FOA “The Identification of Gene Variants for Addiction Related Traits by Next-Gen Sequencing in Model Organisms Selectively Bred for Addiction Traits”

The U01 replaces the UH2/UH3 so it has more flexibility and GWAS can now be performed.

“The Identification of Gene Variants for Addiction Related Traits by Next-Gen Sequencing in Model Organisms Selectively Bred for Addiction Traits (UH2/UH3)” FOA and Notice of Change are now published. Please see the links below:

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-DA-15-042.html

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-15-120.html

Rat Genomics and Models – Ensembl workshop

ENSEMBL, a joint scientific project between the European Bioinformatics Institute and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, will be organizing a workshop on rat genomics and models on December 4 and 5, 2014. ENSEMBL have just released the first set of golden genes in rat, i.e. the merge between the Ensembl automatic and the Havana manual … Read more…

Special GENETICS issue on multiparental populations published

The journal GENETICS highlights articles on the study of multiparental populations in its current issue. As the limitations of two-parent cross designs have become obvious, geneticists are struggling with analysis of experimental populations that have more than two segregating alleles. The articles in the MPP collection, along with their data and transparent methods, should stimulate discussion and, … Read more…

Rat Genomics: Abstract Deadline Approaching

Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, England Rat Genomics and Models 1-4 December 2014 The abstract deadline of 20 October is now approaching for the 9th Rat Genomics and Models conference. This meeting will focus on the use of the rat (Rattus norvegicus) as a model for studying the aetiology of complex diseases in humans, including … Read more…