RNA sequencing of tissues and cell types from Texel x Scottish Blackface sheep for transcriptome annotation and expression analysis.. Roslin Sheep Atlas

Sheep are an important source of meat, milk and fibre globally. To support functional annotation of the sheep genome we have produced a high-resolution atlas of gene expression from a comprehensive set of tissues and cell types from Texel x Scottish Blackface crossbred individuals. RNA-Seq libraries were generated by Edinburgh Genomics from tissues and cells representing all the major organ systems from adult sheep and from several juvenile, neonatal and prenatal developmental time points. The dataset includes 352 medium depth (>25 million reads per sample) mRNA-Seq stranded libraries (125 base pairs paired-end) and 74 high depth (>100 million reads per sample) total RNA-Seq stranded libraries (125 base pairs paired-end). This study is part of the FAANG project, promoting rapid prepublication of data to support the research community. These data are released under Fort Lauderdale principles, as confirmed in the Toronto Statement (Toronto International Data Release Workshop. Birney et al. 2009. Pre-publication data sharing. Nature 461:168-170). Any use of this dataset must abide by the FAANG data sharing principles. Data producers reserve the right to make the first publication of a global analysis of this data. If you are unsure if you are allowed to publish on this dataset, please contact [e-mail] or [e-mail] to enquire. The full guidelines can be found at http://www.faang.org/data-share-principle.