An open-access digital platform for sharing lectures, teaching materials and resources across the five ISAPS themes, co-created by the partners and open to all.
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Genomics, statistical genetics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, microbiomics, and bioinformatics pipelines for livestock.
A self-paced course on how AI finds impactful DNA variants, from sequence conservation to protein language models, and uses them to sharpen genomic prediction and guide genome editing.
Start the course →Molecular data integration and computational modeling: sequencing and omics technologies, GWAS and fine-mapping, multi-omics and eQTL, gene networks, and high-dimensional methods in R. By Peter Sørensen (Aarhus University).
Start the course →Gabor Meszaros' open-access companion to the practical track: SNP file handling, PLINK, quality control and population structure, worked end to end.
Video walkthroughs for every chapter of the book, plus the ten-part Introduction to Genomics theory series used in our Molecular Genomics course.
The standard toolset for whole-genome SNP analysis. Documentation doubles as a reference for file formats and quality-control conventions.
Kent Holsinger's full course notes, from Hardy-Weinberg through coalescent theory. Open access, regularly revised, mathematically careful.
Graham Coop's open notes, strong on drift, selection and the coalescent, with the derivations written out rather than asserted.
Curated database of QTL and association results across livestock species. The first place to check whether a GWAS signal has been reported before.
Genome browser and annotation for all the major livestock species. Needed for turning a genomic position into a gene.
Sequence archives, PubMed and the reference assemblies underlying most of the above.
Fully open-access journal, the main venue for quantitative and genomic methods in animal breeding.
Peters' anthology of the founding papers, freely readable. Useful for seeing how the arguments were originally made.
Entries marked salvaged were rescued from the ABG-Hub, an animal breeding and genetics link collection maintained by Gabor Meszaros until it went offline. Dead links have been removed and relocated resources traced to their current addresses. All links were verified before publication; tell us if one breaks.
Lecture slide decks, regional case studies and downloadable teaching materials co-developed by the partners will be shared here under an open-access licence.
Precision livestock farming, sensor technologies, and AI and machine-learning applications in animal production systems.
A self-paced short course: big data, machine learning, image processing, deep learning and high-throughput phenotyping, with two hands-on Python labs.
Start the course →Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman, free from the authors. The reference text behind most machine-learning methods now used on phenotype data.
Free online book covering the data-wrangling and visualisation workflow that precedes any modelling.
For the point where scripts become tools: functions, environments, performance and debugging.
McElreath's course and lecture videos. A readable route into Bayesian modelling for people who learned statistics as recipes.
Strang's full lecture course. Nearly every method in genomic prediction and phenomics is linear algebra underneath.
Reference for the numerical methods that sit under statistical software, useful when an algorithm misbehaves.
Archive of recorded conference and summer-school lectures in machine learning and statistics.
Entries marked salvaged were rescued from the ABG-Hub, an animal breeding and genetics link collection maintained by Gabor Meszaros until it went offline. Dead links have been removed and relocated resources traced to their current addresses. All links were verified before publication; tell us if one breaks.
Lecture slide decks, regional case studies and downloadable teaching materials co-developed by the partners will be shared here under an open-access licence.
Sustainable, climate-smart feeding strategies and feed efficiency adapted to East African production environments.
Free, certified courses selected together with the FAO e-learning Academy team to complement this theme. Open access via the Academy.
A broad introduction to sustainable, climate-smart livestock systems and adaptation and mitigation along the supply chain.
Introduces circularity, resource efficiency and environmental sustainability in animal production; a cross-cutting topic for MSc students and researchers.
Encyclopaedia of feed materials with composition and nutritive values, maintained by INRAE, CIRAD, AFZ and FAO. Strong coverage of tropical feeds.
FAO's reference on feeds and feeding in tropical systems, relevant to East African production environments.
FAO's model and data for emissions and resource use in livestock supply chains.
Agreed methods for measuring the environmental performance of livestock systems, including feed.
Open-access journal focused on smallholder and tropical systems, with a long record of East African feeding studies.
CGIAR's open repository. Large volume of ILRI feed and forage research, much of it region-specific.
Entries marked salvaged were rescued from the ABG-Hub, an animal breeding and genetics link collection maintained by Gabor Meszaros until it went offline. Dead links have been removed and relocated resources traced to their current addresses. All links were verified before publication; tell us if one breaks.
Lecture slide decks, regional case studies and downloadable teaching materials co-developed by the partners will be shared here under an open-access licence.
The interface of animal, human and environmental health within the ISAPS curriculum.
Free, certified courses selected together with the FAO e-learning Academy team to complement this theme. Open access via the Academy.
Flagship One Health course on AMR, a major priority across animal production, veterinary science and public health. Suitable for virtually all students.
A practical, livestock-focused companion to the AMR course, useful for veterinary and animal-science students.
More specialised and policy-oriented; well suited to graduate students and professionals working on national AMR strategies.
An optional, more disease-specific technical course for those wanting depth on a major transboundary animal disease.
The framing definition and WHO's position on animal, human and environmental health as one system.
FAO's programme pages, with the agriculture and food-systems side of One Health.
Standards, disease notification and the terrestrial animal health code.
The Quadripartite plan agreed by FAO, WHO, WOAH and UNEP. The current reference document for what One Health means operationally.
AMR guidance and surveillance material for the food and agriculture sector.
Effort to quantify the burden of animal disease in the way GBD did for human health. Useful for prioritisation arguments.
Catalogue of inherited disorders and traits across animal species, with the causal variants where known.
Entries marked salvaged were rescued from the ABG-Hub, an animal breeding and genetics link collection maintained by Gabor Meszaros until it went offline. Dead links have been removed and relocated resources traced to their current addresses. All links were verified before publication; tell us if one breaks.
Lecture slide decks, regional case studies and downloadable teaching materials co-developed by the partners will be shared here under an open-access licence.
Biodiversity, breeding programmes, climate resilience, value chains, socio-economics and greenhouse-gas mitigation.
The courses in this theme are shelved in three groups. Open a group to see its courses.
The entry point to the breeding track: cells and chromosomes, mitosis and meiosis, Mendelian inheritance, gene interactions and epistasis. Developed from the materials of Hulunim Gatew Tariku (Debre Berhan University).
Start the course →Means and variances, additive and dominance components, heritability and response to selection, with R material. A separate course from Quantitative & Population Genetics below. By Peter Sørensen (Aarhus University).
Start the course →Foundations of genetic variation and quantitative trait analysis: Hardy–Weinberg, drift, selection, linkage disequilibrium, heritability and the breeder's equation, with R tutorials. By Peter Sørensen (Aarhus University).
Start the course →The breeder’s toolkit: traits and variation, heritability and repeatability, the breeder’s equation, breeding-value estimation and BLUP, and mating systems including inbreeding, with worked examples. From the materials of Hulunim Gatew Tariku (Debre Berhan University).
Start the course →The quantitative-genetics foundations of breeding: heritability, breeding values (BLUP) and genomic prediction (GBLUP), with hands-on R practicals. By Peter Sørensen (Aarhus University, CC0).
Start the course →A self-paced course on genomic selection: SNP chips, genomic breeding values, the accuracy equation, breeding-program design and managing genetic diversity.
Start the course →How genetic gain reaches the herd: reproductive anatomy and hormones, the estrous cycle and gestation, artificial insemination and semen technology, estrus synchronisation and embryo transfer. From the materials of Hulunim Gatew Tariku (Debre Berhan University).
Start the course →Free, certified courses selected together with the FAO e-learning Academy team to complement this theme. Open access via the Academy.
Explores the links between livestock production, biodiversity and ecosystem services; especially relevant to farm animal genetic resources and sustainable land management.
FAO's global database of livestock breeds and their risk status. The starting point for any breed conservation question.
Breed-level information for African indigenous livestock, originally developed at ILRI. Directly relevant to the partner countries.
FAO's global assessment. Still the standard citation for the scale and direction of breed loss.
Julius van der Werf's course notes from UNE: selection theory, index construction and breeding programme design, freely available.
Larry Schaeffer's Guelph notes on mixed models, BLUP and the animal model, written for students who have to implement them.
Misztal's programs for genetic evaluation, including single-step genomic BLUP, with the wiki documentation.
International genetic evaluation service and the bulletins describing how national evaluations are combined.
European Federation of Animal Science: annual meeting abstracts and working-group outputs.
Long-running commentary on crop and livestock genetic resources, useful for keeping current.
The treaty framework, including the targets that national genetic-resource policy is written against.
Entries marked salvaged were rescued from the ABG-Hub, an animal breeding and genetics link collection maintained by Gabor Meszaros until it went offline. Dead links have been removed and relocated resources traced to their current addresses. All links were verified before publication; tell us if one breaks.
Lecture slide decks, regional case studies and downloadable teaching materials co-developed by the partners will be shared here under an open-access licence.
Complete, externally authored learning resources that our collaborators have made openly available.
A hands-on study path in practical SNP data analysis: PLINK, R and RStudio, genotype file formats, quality control and PCA. Nine chapters with video walkthroughs, mapped module by module onto the courses in this Hub.
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