Hi. Horses are very important animals in where i live(We even have ministry of horses...). So me and one friend of mine tried to isolate DNA from best horse breeds and then make a database, and later mine that database to perform selection predictions by computer... Its a big project and founded by gvt. I am not a part of it, my friend just consults me from time to time, since I am both acquainted with programming and biology. We are stuck with DNA isolation from horse blood right now. Do you think this kind of experiment would be interesting?
Is there a veterinary school near you (Turkmenistan)? If so, this is your best bet. They should have the equipment to do proper DNA isolation from blood. (Something like this will help: Qiagen DNeasy Blood and Tissue kit [1]) What you'll probably want to do is high-throughput DNA sequencing and then map the sequences to the Horse genome [2]. Then you'll be able to compare the variations from various breeds.
Hi, thank you for the info. The project is well funded(equipment is therefor isnt much of an issue), the problem is not with money but with professionals. The guy just finished university, and they ask him to conduct this project. There are not many people here who know this stuff, neither the biological aspect nor the programming. And I guess they don't want to hire foreigners, i am not sure why. You see, horses are so important here, you can even get a sentence for killing one. So maybe it has something to do with foreigners thing.
