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RGD News

03/05/2026 - Introducing the Black Rat (Rattus rattus) Species Resource Page

02/27/2026 - New paper alert! Published in Database. Mapping EFO terms from GWAS to RGD ontologies

10/16/2025 - RGD 2026 Rat Calendar can be downloaded

07/01/2025 - RGD announces a new Behavioral and Substance Use Disorder Portal

05/22/2025 - ICYMI: The Alliance of Genome Resources hosted a webinar on JBrowse2.0

02/20/2025 - ICYMI: The Alliance of Genome Resources hosted a webinar on Exploring Variants

10/30/2024 - Complex Trait Community – Rat Genomics Meeting Oct2024 recordings and slides available

10/01/2024 - Full listing of News notices can be found on the News page in the upper menu, or click HERE

10/01/2024 - RGD announces office hours by appointment only


Conferences, Courses and Workshops
10/21/2025 - Complex Trait Community Meeting, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain - October 21 - 24, 2025
12/19/2025 - FASEB 2026 Meetings and Events
03/04/2026 - Festival of Biologics USA 2026, San Diego Convention Center, CA – March 4–5, 2026
04/07/2026 - IMGC April 7-10, Reykjavik, Iceland. Abstracts due by Jan 7, 2026
04/20/2026 - 19th International Biocuration Conference, April 20-24, 2026k; Abstract deadline Nov 21, 2025
04/23/2026 - APS Summit: Minneapolis, MN 4/23-26/2026. Abstr deadline 12/3/2025. Late breaking 2/2/2026
06/08/2026 - Genes, Brain, and Behavior (GBB) meeting, June 8-11 2026, University of Pittsburgh
06/09/2026 - Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference. June 9-12, 2026. Pacific Grove, CA. Abstracts due March 10
06/23/2026 - INFRAFRONTIER Conference 2026, June 23-24 2026. Speaker proposals by April 30
07/12/2026 - 34th Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology; July 12-16 2026; Abstract deadline April 9
09/28/2026 - Great Plains Bioinformatics Conference, Sept 28-30, Omaha NB. Abstracts due July 22
10/07/2026 - AHA Hypertension. Oct 7-11, 2026, Arlington, VA. Abstract deadline 5/28/26
11/04/2026 - Cold Spring Harbor: Biological Data Science Nov 4-7 2026, Abstracts due 8/14/26
11/06/2026 - AHA Scientific Sessions. 11/6-9/2026, Chicago, IL. Abstract submission opens in April 2026
11/08/2026 - CTC-RG 23rd Annual Mtg THE ROUX INSTITUTE PORTLAND, MAINE Nov 8-13, 2026. Abstracts due Aug 14
11/14/2026 - Cold Spring Harbor Labs Course: Computational Genetics.11/14-21/2026. Apply by 8/7/2026

RGD Data Snapshot 2026-05-14
Data Objects
Genes (All Species)
1,100,450
Rat Strains
4,580
QTLs (All Species)
1,399,484
Variants (All Species)
568,705,288
References
155,671
New Genes added since 2026-05-07
2
Experimental Ontology Annotations (All Species)
RDO: RGD Disease Ontology
4,259,306
CMO: Clinical Measurement
463,697
ChEBI: ChEBI Ontology
5,288,492
EFO: Experimental Factor Ontology
1,592,968
GO: Biological Process
2,206,668
GO: Cellular Component
1,450,205
GO: Molecular Function
1,863,836
HP: Human Phenotype
796,441
MMO: Measurement Methods
2,423
MP: Mammalian Phenotype
365,720
PW: Pathway Ontology
228,036
RS: Rat Strains
8,879
VT: Vertebrate Trait Ontology
693,041
XCO: Experimental Condition
3,124