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Wed, 17 Aug 2016 08:37:26 +0000

Thanks Kabuni. How do we engage with the farmers and get them on board? How do we convince them that the effort is worth it?

In reply to - Karen Marshall – forum organiser wrote a new post, Using genomic information on cattle in Africa Here we are discussing the applications of genomic (or genetic) information on cattle in Africa, both in the near […]

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Wed, 17 Aug 2016 08:36:21 +0000

I am interested in your opinion about how best to make this type of data available and usable to African scientists

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Wed, 17 Aug 2016 08:35:31 +0000

How do we influence the policy makers?

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Wed, 17 Aug 2016 08:34:52 +0000

Indeed – it’s very clear we need strong genotypic data alongside well defined phenotypic data from the same animals.

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Wed, 17 Aug 2016 08:34:04 +0000

I agree and I would be interested in your opinion on how best we could make such data available and usable by the African scientific community

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Wed, 17 Aug 2016 08:33:20 +0000

I agree with this, so how do we do this? How do we engage with farmers and convince them of the need to engage with our efforts?

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Wed, 17 Aug 2016 08:32:16 +0000

With the characterisation of pathogens you mention, did this lead to anything useful e.g. better vaccines or better intervention strategies? How do we improve our ability to tackle disease?

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Wed, 17 Aug 2016 08:30:31 +0000

Hello! I think this is the kind of project and the kind of idea that all researchers interested in farm animal genomics would be interested in. There are two key questions: (i) what barriers exist to the genomic characterisation of Nigerian cattle and (ii) how do we translate the results into real impact for people?

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Wed, 17 Aug 2016 08:27:38 +0000

John, very interested in your comments on this! How do we maximise the translation of genomics into results that change lives?

In reply to - Karen Marshall – forum organiser wrote a new post, Building a genomic reference resource on African cattle Here we will discuss the need and potential for a Genomics Reference Resource for African Cattle – which […]

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Wed, 17 Aug 2016 08:05:54 +0000

I suspect “the devil is in the detail” – the current Hereford assembly has errors in it, and also there will be quite a lot of structural variation between cattle breeds in Africa and the Hereford reference. We are also working on difficult-to-assemble regions such as MHC

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Wed, 17 Aug 2016 08:04:50 +0000

We have started a bit of this, we’ll be able to do more once recruitment has finished!

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Wed, 17 Aug 2016 08:04:03 +0000

Do we know why some stakeholders failed to engage?

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Wed, 17 Aug 2016 08:03:20 +0000

I completely agree with this and many of us are working to ensure that phenotypic data are collected in standard ways that allows and enables downstream analysis

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Wed, 17 Aug 2016 08:03:04 +0000

Genome reference sequences are of huge value to researchers. It would be good to know what challenges exist, if any, in terms of making genome sequence data usable for scientists in Africa.

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