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• LNChickenAtlas: Long non coding gene (LNC) annotation of the chicken genome

  INRAE, Institut Agro, Brittany region & ANR ANR-CE20-EFFICACE [€400,000] (2019-03-01~2025-12-31)

  Objectives: 1) Extend the ENSEMBL catalog by gathering different LNC resources (NCBI, NONCODE, ALDB, Fr-AgENCODE, LNC predicted from additional 356 RNA-seq data) 2) Investigate LNC conservation between chicken and mammals 3) Extract a gold standard LNC set 4) Atlas of tissue expression of LNC & protein coding genes (PCG) 5) Assess the genetic basis of intra-tissue LNC expression and PCG-LNC co-expression (200+ animals) in metabolic tissues with a focus on liver which will be related to lipid phenotypes, using RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, HiC and methylation profiles.

  Project directors:

  • Hervé Acloque and Elisabetta Giuffra, INRAE Jouy-en-Josas, France
  • Sarah Djebali, INSERM Toulouse, France
  • Sylvain Foissac, Frédérique Pitel and Christophe Klopp, INRAE Toulouse, France
  • Sandrine Lagarrigue and Thomas Derrien, Institut Agro/INRAE and CNRS, Rennes, France

  Primary contact: Sandrine.lagarrigue@agrocampus-ouest.fr Linked projects: FR-AgENCODE, GENE-SWitCH

  Contact: Sylvain Foissac (sylvain.foissac@inrae.fr)

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