On April 10, 2018, SFARI held a workshop to discuss online platforms for visualizing and analyzing SFARI genomics data. These platforms included the Genotypes and Phenotypes in Families web interface, created by SFARI Investigator Ivan Iossifov’s team, and Hub.iobio, which is currently being developed by Frameshift.
The animal models module of SFARI Gene has recently been expanded to include two new species: Drosophila melanogaster and Danio rerio. As of now, the database lists 55 genes for Drosophila models and 24 genes for zebrafish models, in addition to several models induced by biological or chemical agents.
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This issue of the SFARI newsletter includes: (1) Upcoming changes to SFARI’s requests for grant applications, (2) SFARI Gene: New data release, (3) SFARI Investigators elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, (4) SFARI booths at INSAR 2018, (5) SFARI presentations at INSAR 2018, (6) Special Interest Group at INSAR 2018: Promoting partnerships between patient advocacy groups and researchers to improve autism research, (7) Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell survey.
New data were added to SFARI Gene in April 2018. This data release included updated gene scores for candidate autism risk genes, as well as the addition of new genes, animal models, and copy number variant loci associated with autism.