Overview

The Avian Genomes website is focused on avian scientific research, with the intent of fostering open world-wide collaboration to leverage:

• the recent availability of avian genome sequences for the zebra finch and chicken, and
• the comparative value of using short read high-throughput sequencing data from numerous other avian species.

The research lab of Dr. Erich Jarvis designed and produced a custom zebra finch oligoarray for transcript expression analysis. This oligoarray is available for use in zebra finch and a number of other species for which the oligos have been confidently detected, and is the subject of much annotation efforts relating to the zebra finch genome and the transcriptome.
It is important to note the distinction between transcript and gene locus -- the latter typically predicts only one transcript, while the former can represent in vivo transcript variants produced during specific behaviors. Especially in the brain, where alternate splice events are numerous, having the ability to measure and analyze specific splice variants is critical to performing quality research. Without this annotation, many gene expression signatures are lost in noise, as one splice variant for a gene may be diminished while another is enhanced, thus the collective signal appears scattered.

Avian Genome Browser	Array Annotation and Analysis
	Analysis Workflow (to be attached), link to Analysis portal