UCSC Sheep Genome Browser - oviAri3 assembly
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MCCULLOCH Mary
Apr 12, 2017, 11:43:41 AM4/12/17
to gen...@soe.ucsc.edu, RUSSELL Norman
To Whom It May Concern,
I am writing to express concern about the choice of photo that you have at present concerning the Sheep Genome Browser on your Genome Browser Gateway website. I am a vet in the process of writing up my PhD on sheep bone marrow derived macrophages and their transcriptomic response to Lipopolysaccharide, here at the Roslin Institute and spent many years in practice working with sheep prior to this. It has bothered me for many months (as I have much to thank the wonderful resource that UCSC provides and have used it a lot - thank you!), that your chosen photo is, I believe, a herd of goats - not sheep. I have asked many fellow vets at the Roslin Institute (some of which are very involved with different sheep breeds overseas) and all agree with me - the animals you currently have pictured really do look like goats and not the Sheep that we recognise, know and love!
I would be most grateful if you were to consider changing your photo and crediting the Institute photographer Norrie Russell and The Roslin Insitute with one of the attached photos he has taken. I think the best possible photo and most classic sheep image is the portrait head photo. It would give us all SO much pleasure to see this head of a classic sheep that we recognise on your wonderful website. Please consider this request, I don't think a better photo of a sheep has ever been taken and it would be a great improvement on the suspected goats you have pictured at present.
I await your response with great anticipation and all fingers crossed,
Mary McCulloch
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I am writing to express concern about the choice of photo that you have at present concerning the Sheep Genome Browser on your Genome Browser Gateway website. I am a vet in the process of writing up my PhD on sheep bone marrow derived macrophages and their transcriptomic response to Lipopolysaccharide, here at the Roslin Institute and spent many years in practice working with sheep prior to this. It has bothered me for many months (as I have much to thank the wonderful resource that UCSC provides and have used it a lot - thank you!), that your chosen photo is, I believe, a herd of goats - not sheep. I have asked many fellow vets at the Roslin Institute (some of which are very involved with different sheep breeds overseas) and all agree with me - the animals you currently have pictured really do look like goats and not the Sheep that we recognise, know and love!
I would be most grateful if you were to consider changing your photo and crediting the Institute photographer Norrie Russell and The Roslin Insitute with one of the attached photos he has taken. I think the best possible photo and most classic sheep image is the portrait head photo. It would give us all SO much pleasure to see this head of a classic sheep that we recognise on your wonderful website. Please consider this request, I don't think a better photo of a sheep has ever been taken and it would be a great improvement on the suspected goats you have pictured at present.
I await your response with great anticipation and all fingers crossed,
Mary McCulloch
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The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Cath Tyner
Apr 12, 2017, 8:06:51 PM4/12/17
to MCCULLOCH Mary, gen...@soe.ucsc.edu, RUSSELL Norman
Hi Mary,
Thank you so much for contacting the UCSC Genome Browser support team! Your message was very well received by our team, thank you for the details and suggestions.
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You have raised our awareness to the fact that we should be displaying the Texel breed, and the image will be updated soon. I'll make a note to contact you when the image has been revised. Thank you again for bringing this to our attention!
Thank you so much for contacting the UCSC Genome Browser support team! Your message was very well received by our team, thank you for the details and suggestions.
We all really loved th
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beautiful photograph of the ram taken by Norrie Russell, wow! We would love to use it, but the image criteria for genome browsers is to display the organism species/breed as closely as possible to that which was actually sequenced. For this particular assembly, oviAri3, the genome sequence was derived from a USMARC Texel ram and a Danish Texel ewe. That said, for the oviAri3 browser, we carried the image over from the previous sheep assembly version to incorrectly display the breed "St. Croix." Along with the Dorper breed, the Croix do look notoriously like goats!You have raised our awareness to the fact that we should be displaying the Texel breed, and the image will be updated soon. I'll make a note to contact you when the image has been revised. Thank you again for bringing this to our attention!
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