The Songbird Neurogenomics (SoNG) Initiative: Community-based tools and strategies for study of brain gene function and evolution

Kirstin Replogle¹^,9 , Arthur P Arnold² , Gregory F Ball³ , Mark Band⁸ , Staffan Bensch¹¹ , Eliot A Brenowitz⁴ , Shu Dong¹ , Jenny Drnevich⁸ , Margaret Ferris¹² , Julia M George⁵ , George Gong⁸ , Dennis Hasselquist¹¹ , Alvaro G Hernandez⁸ , Ryan Kim⁸ , Harris A Lewin⁹^,10 , Lei Liu⁸ , Peter V Lovell⁶ , Claudio V Mello⁶ , Sara Naurin¹¹ , Sandra Rodriguez-Zas¹⁰ , Jyothi Thimmapuram⁸ , Juli Wade⁷ and David F Clayton¹^,9^,12

¹Cell & Developmental Biology, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA

²Physiological Sci., UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

³Psychological & Brain Sci., Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA

⁴Psychology, Biology, and Bloedel Hearing Research Center, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

⁵Mol. & Integrative Physiology, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA

⁶Neurological Sci. Inst., Oregon Hlth. Sci. Univ., Beaverton, OR, USA

⁷Psychology, Zoology & Neuroscience, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA

⁸W.M. Keck Center for Comparative & Functional Genomics, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA

⁹Institute for Genomic Biology, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA

¹⁰Animal Sciences, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA

¹¹Animal Ecology, Lund University, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden

¹²Neuroscience Program, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA

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BMC Genomics 2008, 9:131doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-131


Published:	18 March 2008

Additional files

Additional File 1:

SoNG20K. Annotation of the SoNG 20 K array. standard GAL file format describing each spot on the 20 K microarray, 20215 rows × 6 columns. Rows 1–55 describe block organization. Rows 56-20215 describe the 20160 features (spots) on the array (see Table 4). Columns 1–3 define feature position. Column four gives the unique identifier for the feature. Column five gives the "custom annotation" name for that spotted DNA, based on the Build 3 annotation (described in Tables 3). Column six identifies the source of the information used for that custom annotation.

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Additional File 2:

SoNGcall. CALL FOR PROPOSALS for USE OF MICROARRAY RESOURCES. Document distributed on Oct. 15, 2004, describing the overall goals and administrative organization of the Songbird Neurogenomics Initiative.

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