ELIXIR domestic animals genome and phenome community road map 2025-2030

The ELIXIR Domestic Animals Genome and Phenome (DAGP) Community will support genotype to phenotype analysis for farmed and companion animal species. As a community we aim to coordinate, discuss and explore the potential for data/technology solutions to address key issues in animal welfare, behaviour, health, infectious diseases, metabolism, nutritional efficiency, and preservation of genetic diversity and the environment. This will consolidate efforts to develop data standards, coordination, workflows and visualisation, which are needed to enhance the science underpinning rapidly developing fields in domestic animal genomics, including pangenome analysis, functional genomics, genome editing, phenotyping, and bio-banking. The developed standards will be based on the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reproducible), leveraging established data and metadata sharing principles, standards and ontologies to promote best practices in data coordination, analysis and archiving, as well as promoting readiness for use of AI tools. The RoadMap for the ELIXIR Domestic Animal Genomes and Phenomes Community 2025-2030 builds on the current data infrastructure, resources and tools that are available for domestic animal genomics and phenomics, particularly the global Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes (FAANG) Data Sharing Principles and FAANG Data Portal, and provides a set of community-led objectives. These objectives describe how ELIXIR services can be applied in the field of domestic animal genomics to benefit the entire community. Some examples include: i) expanding the FAANG Data Portal to include phenotype data and additional species, in cooperation with the ELIXIR Platforms, ii) exploring submissions of new and linked data types across ELIXIR services, including single cell data, and provision of encrypted proprietary data from industry partners, and iii) strengthening connections to existing ELIXIR communities, other ESFRI infrastructures, and international consortia. We have established strong links, for example, with the Plant Sciences Community through the similar challenges faced for food and agriculture. Our objectives are designed to contribute directly to the ELIXIR Biodiversity, Food Security and Pathogens and the Cellular and Molecular Research scientific priority areas.