Department of Animal Science and Center for Integrated Animal Genomics, Iowa State University, 2255 Kildee Hall, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2013 Jan;41(Database issue):D871-9. doi: 10.1093/nar/gks1150. Epub 2012 Nov 24.
The Animal QTL database (QTLdb; http://www.animalgenome.org/QTLdb) is designed to house all publicly available QTL and single-nucleotide polymorphism/gene association data on livestock animal species. An earlier version was published in the Nucleic Acids Research Database issue in 2007. Since then, we have continued our efforts to develop new and improved database tools to allow more data types, parameters and functions. Our efforts have transformed the Animal QTLdb into a tool that actively serves the research community as a quality data repository and more importantly, a provider of easily accessible tools and functions to disseminate QTL and gene association information. The QTLdb has been heavily used by the livestock genomics community since its first public release in 2004. To date, there are 5920 cattle, 3442 chicken, 7451 pigs, 753 sheep and 88 rainbow trout data points in the database, and at least 290 publications that cite use of the database. The rapid advancement in genomic studies of cattle, chicken, pigs, sheep and other livestock animals has presented us with challenges, as well as opportunities for the QTLdb to meet the evolving needs of the research community. Here, we report our progress over the recent years and highlight new functions and services available to the general public.
动物 QTL 数据库（QTLdb；http://www.animalgenome.org/QTLdb）旨在存储所有可公开获得的家畜物种的 QTL 和单核苷酸多态性/基因关联数据。其早期版本于 2007 年在核酸研究数据库专刊上发布。自那时起，我们一直致力于开发新的和改进的数据库工具，以允许更多的数据类型、参数和功能。我们的努力使动物 QTLdb 转变为一个工具，它不仅作为一个高质量数据存储库，而且更重要的是作为一个提供易于访问的工具和功能的提供者，来传播 QTL 和基因关联信息，积极服务于研究界。自 2004 年首次公开发布以来，家畜基因组学社区一直在大量使用该数据库。迄今为止，该数据库中已有 5920 个牛、3442 个鸡、7451 个猪、753 个羊和 88 个虹鳟鱼数据点，至少有 290 篇出版物引用了该数据库。牛、鸡、猪、羊和其他家畜的基因组研究的快速发展给 QTLdb 带来了挑战，同时也为其满足研究界不断变化的需求提供了机会。在这里，我们报告了近年来的进展，并强调了向公众提供的新功能和服务。
